Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter
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Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter

Teaching Stories and Fables

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter

Teaching Stories and Fables

About this book

Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do--however compulsive--affords a glimpse into the inner life.

Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality--much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls.

Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw--intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny.

This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator.

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."--Rumi

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Information

Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781571747617
eBook ISBN
9781612833736
Topic
Theology & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Scrimshaw
  7. Nasuh
  8. Images of the Unseen
  9. Two Ways of Running
  10. In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad
  11. Dying, Laughing
  12. Human Honesty
  13. Dalqak's Message
  14. Faraj's Wedding Night
  15. Bestami
  16. Eyes-Shut Facing Eyes-Rolling-Around
  17. The Visions of Daquqi
  18. Sexual Urgency, What a Woman's Laughter Can Do, and the Nature of True Virility
  19. The Court Poet
  20. Spiritual Seniority
  21. The Law Student and the Shroud-Maker
  22. The Trick of Hiding in a Box
  23. Berouged Old Ladies
  24. Ayaz and the King's Pearl
  25. A Man and a Woman Arguing
  26. Muhammed and the Huge Eater
  27. The Pear Tree
  28. Two Ways of Coming Down a Mountain
  29. Spilling the Rose Oil
  30. When a Madman Smiles at You
  31. A Song About a Donkey
  32. Childhood Friends
  33. Chinese Art and Greek Art
  34. Tattooing in Qazwin
  35. A Subtle Theological Point
  36. A One-Grain Ant
  37. The Private Banquet
  38. Cry Out in Your Weakness
  39. Flowing Gifts
  40. A Goat Kneels!
  41. Three Creatures
  42. The Ocean Duck
  43. An Early Morning Eye
  44. Collect the Pieces
  45. Following the Sunset
  46. Solomon and Sheba
  47. In Between Stories
  48. The Worm's Waking
  49. Put This Design in Your Carpet
  50. Lovers Want Each Other Completely Naked
  51. A House With Only One Door
  52. The Importance of Gourdcrafting
  53. Chickpea to Cook
  54. A Presence Like Rain
  55. Notes