AMMAN — Considered one of the masterpieces of world
literature, "
The Big Red Book" is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi,
the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in
America.
اضافة اعلان
Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of
Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in
what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of
Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he
eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a
fateful day in 1244 when he met Shams Tabriz, a wild mystic with rare gifts and
insight.
Out of their friendship, Rumi wrote
thousands of lyric poems and short quatrains in honor of his friend. They are
poems of divine epiphany, spiritual awakening, friendship, and love. For
centuries, Rumi's collection of these verses has traditionally been bound in a
red cover, hence the title of this inspired classic of spiritual literature.
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