Rumi - The Most Famous Sufi Poet in the World

Finally, we're talking about the incredibly significant Persian sufi poet Jalal al-din Rumi. This video provides an in-depth analysis of Rumi's life, poetic themes, literary contributions, and their significance in the context of Sufism and Persian literature.

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Sources/Recomended Reading:

Chittick, William (1983). "The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". SUNY Press.

Feldman, Walter (2022). "From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire". Edinburgh University Press.

Gamard, Ibrahim & Rawan Farhadi (translated by) (2008). "The Quatrains of Rumi". Sufi Dari Books.

Karamustafa, Ahmet T. (2006). God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550. Oneworld Publications.

Karamustafa, Ahmet T. (2007). "Sufism - the formative period". Edinburgh University Press.

Knysh, Alexander (2000). "Islamic Mysticism: A Short History". Brill.

Lewis, Franklin D. (2000). "Rumi: Past and Present, East and West". Oneworld publications.

Thackston, W.M. (translated by) (1999). "Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi". Shambala.

Williams, Alan (translated by) (2020). "The Masnavi of Rumi: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes". Book 1 & 2. I.B. Tauris.

Also check out the work of Sharghzade/Persian Poetics:
https://twitter.com/persianpoetics


Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:40 Rumi's Family & Early Life
10:48 Discipleship & Studies
11:53 Entering on the Sufi path
14:27 Shams al-din Tabrizi
18:53 Music & Poetry
21:34 Shams al-din Tabrizi (cont.)
26:30 The Disappearance of Shams
29:17 Rumi as a poet
30:35 Divan-i Shams (Rumi's Diwan)
33:44 The Masnavi
35:50 Discourses
36:29 The "Philosophy" of Rumi
40:56 The Song of the Reed
45:42 The Limit of Words vs. Mystical Knowledge
48:05 Love
50:09 Rumi's "Tolerance" & Islam
51:53 "All paths that lead to God are One"
53:54 Inner devotion vs. outer practice (Form & Meaning)
1:00:54 Monism? (Wahdat al-Wujud?)
1:03:18 Death of Rumi & Succession
1:05:53 The Mevlevi Sufi Order in History
1:12:27 The Legacy of Rumi
1:12:50 Fake Rumi Quotes & Mistranslations
1:13:37 Recomended Translations
1:17:18 Conclusions



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