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RUMI'S POETRY OF AGING
; Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) was, by common assent, the greatest...recently, according to Publisher's Weekly, Rumi has become the most widely read poet in America. In many poems, Rumi deals with aging and old age. In "A Man...
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Try Scientific Unity
; "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there." ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi (Persian poet and mystic, 1207-1273) "Truth comes before unity. Unity without truth is hazardous." ~ Charles H. Spurgeon (from...
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The Mevlana festival
; ...greatest teachers and poets, Mevlana jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi, (1207-1273). This is the 726th...path by a wandering dervish, Shams ad-Din of Tabriz. His love and his grief...history of the Mevlevi order that Rumi founded: Rumi wrote of him: "Sun of Tabriz...
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WHIRLED TOUR OF MYSTICAL DERVISHES UNITES HEAVEN, EARTH.(Entertainment)(Review)
; ...buried in antiquity. Current usage of the whirling dance is connected to the 13th-century poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi (also known as Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi). Born in Afghanistan, he spent his life in Konya, Turkey, and is one of the great literary figures...
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New in Paperback
; ...it?" POETRY The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks...part of the Persian empire, Rumi -- Jalal ad-Din Rumi, sometimes known as Jalaluddin...holy man and mystic poet. Rumi holds a central place in Persian...seemed appropriate to place Rumi in the strong ...
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D.C. Community Calendar
; ...2320 S St. NW. Free. 202-667-0441. "RUMI AT 800: A SUFI CELEBRATION," music...in celebration of the poet Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi, born in 1207. Poet Naomi Shihab...the celebration with a reading of Rumi's works and her own. 11 a.m.-9 p...
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Resources for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue.(Bibliography)
; ...Renard, The Dominican and the Dervish: A Christian-Muslim Dialogue that Might Have Been between Thomas Aquinas and Jalal ad-Din Rumi, vol. 29 (Spring, 1992): 189-201. Michael G. Fonner, Jesus' Death by Crucifixion in the Qur an: An Issue for Interpretation...
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Imparting the power of rhythm, verse.(LIFE - SCHOOLS)(HOME-SCHOOLING TODAY)
; ...not having spent more time on poetry. Sure, we read Shakespeare and Robert Frost, but not William Butler Yeats, not Jalal ad-Din Rumi, not Rabindranath Tagore, not Robert Burns or Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It is a rich and vast land, this universe...
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Fethullah Gülen and the 'People of the Book': A Voice from Turkey for Interfaith Dialogue
; ...religious figures such as al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 728) and Harith al-Muhasibi (d. 857), al-Ghazzali (d. 1111), and Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi (d. 1276), Gulen avidly read the more recent works of two Indian writers, Ahmad Faruqi Sirhindi (1564-1024) and...
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The Muslim Jesus: Sayings And Stories In Islamic Literature. (Briefly Noted).(Review)
; ...inferiority; the legal literature creates a binary Muslim vs. non-Muslim distinction that is never breached; even Jalal ad-Din Rumi, the favorite poet of mystically inclined Americans, turns out to be less inclusive and more doctrinaire than they...
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