Thisbook (previously published as IAm Wind, You Are Fire)celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet, Rumi(1207–1273), through the story of his life, along with an enlighteningexamination of his ecstatic verse. Rumi lived the quiet life of a religiousteacher in Anatolia until the age of thirty-seven, when he came under theinfluence of a whirling dervish, Shams Tabriz, and was moved to a state ofmystical ecstasy. One of the results of this ecstasy was a prodigious output ofpoems about the search for the lost Divine Beloved, whom Rumi identified withShams. To symbolize this search, Rumi also invented the famous whirling danceof the Melevi dervishes, which are performed accompanied by the chanting ofRumi's poems. Professor Schimmel illuminates the symbolism and significance ofRumi's vast output and offers her own translations of some of his most famouspoems.
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