Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance : Containing 365 Selections from the Wis of Rumi [Hardcover]

Maulana Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Rumi Mevlana Jalaluddin (Author), Camille Helminski (Author, Translator), Kabir Helminski (Author, Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1996

Jelaluddin Rumi a thirteenth century Sufi master is recognized as one of the greatest spiritual geniuses of all time and has been one of the most popular spiritual voices in North America for the last decade. In the translators have compiled a collection of literary gems representative of Rumi's spiritual guidance that will be meaningful to people who follow both Western and Eastern traditions. As a daybook the format offers jewels of Rumi's wisdom that are easily accessible to the reader.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The current popularity of the 13th-century Sufi saint Jalaluddin Rumi's vast body of poetry stems in part from the Helminskis themselves?from their previous graceful Rumi translations and from their many other contributions to fueling Western interest in Sufism. In Rumi: Daylight (1994), another "Daybook," the couple translated excerpts from the first two of the six books contained in the Mathnawi, the Rumi masterpiece frequently called "the Koran in the Persian tongue." Now they follow here with a companion volume drawn from Books III and IV. A sparkling collection, Jewels is destined to refreshen for today's readers the liveliness, wit and sensuousness of Rumi's transcendent vision of the "complete" person questing to be reunited with the "Beloved," one of the poet's names for Allah or God. Rumi enthusiasts, both new and veteran, are notoriously ravenous for new insights, and the Helminskis continue generously to provide just that.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Persian

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Threshold Books (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939660504
• ISBN-13: 978-0939660506
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,541,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)