Rumi: Unseen Poems; Edited and Translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz by Rum

The Nile on eBay\n\n  FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE\n\n \n\nRumi\nby\nRumi,\nBrad Gooch,\nMaryam Mortaz\n\n\""This is a Borzoi book\""--Title page verso.\n\nFORMAT\nHardcover\nLANGUAGE\nEnglish\nCONDITION\nBrand New\n\nPublisher Description\nA beautiful collector's hardcover of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.\n\nRumi (1207\u20131273) was trained in Sufism\u2014a mystic tradition within Islam\u2014and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumi's poetry has long been popular with contemporary Western audiences because of the way it combines the sacred and the sensual, describing divine love in rapturously human terms. \n\nHowever, a number of Rumi's English translators over the past century were not speakers of Persian and they based their sometimes very free interpretations on earlier translations. With Western audience;