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Mawlana Rumi Review 2015

By Robert Darr (contributor), Roderick Grierson (editor), Franklin Lewis (editor) and Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9781901383515 | Archetype Books, February 15, 2016, cover price $21.95

Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry

Product Description: The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism...read more

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9781784532123 | Tauris Academic Studies, May 30, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world.

Mawlana Rumi Review

Product Description: TheÂ Mawlana Rumi ReviewÂ is a new review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islamâs greatest Sufi poet and author. Mawlana (âOur masterâ) Jalal al-Din Rumi (d.1273) has been the best-selling poet in English in the United States for the last two decades...read more

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9781901383478 | Archetype Books, October 15, 2014, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: TheÂ Mawlana Rumi ReviewÂ is a new review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islamâs greatest Sufi poet and author.

9781901383423 | Archetype Books, October 15, 2011, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The Mawlana Rumi Review is a new annual academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, the world's greatest Sufi poet.

9781901383386 | Archetype Books, October 15, 2010, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The Mawlana Rumi Review is a new annual academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, the world's greatest Sufi poet.

Mawlana Rumi Review 2013

Product Description: This is the third volume of theÂ Mawalana Rumi Review, the only journal devoted to the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi. Articles include Female Masters in the History of Sufism, Â by HÃ¼lya KÃ¼Ã§Ã¼k. andÂ 'Sultan Walad'sÂ (Rumi's son) role in the Foundation of the Mevlevi Sufi Order', as well as, Â 'A proper cutt: William Hogarth and the Dervishes who Serve God on their Tiptoes'; also including original translations from Rumi by acclaimed scholar Franklin Lewis...read more

By Roderick Grierson (editor), Leonard Lewisohn (editor), James Morris (editor), Shahram Pazouki (editor) and Yasin Salazar (editor)

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9781901383454 | Archetype Books, August 6, 2013, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This is the third volume of theÂ Mawalana Rumi Review, the only journal devoted to the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi.

The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781848852693 | Gardners Books, June 30, 2013, cover price $74.80

Paperback:

9781936597420 | World Wisdom Books, December 1, 2014, cover price $23.95

Mawlana Rumi Review 2012

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9781901383430 | Archetype Books, September 12, 2012, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This is the third volume of theÂ Mawalana Rumi Review, the only journal devoted to the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi.

Stations of the Sufi Path: The One Hundred Fields, Sad Maydan of Abdullah Ansari of Herat

Product Description: 'Stations of the Sufi Path' is a new translation of a key Sufi text and the first Persian work to address the stages, or stations, of the Sufi way. Its author, Abdullah Ansari, was born in 1006 in Herat in present-day Afghanistan, and is considered one of the greatest as well as one of the earliest of the Persian Sufi scholars whose works constitute an important contribution to the intellectual history of Islam...read more

By Nahid Angha and Leonard Lewisohn (foreword by)

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9781901383362 | Archetype Books, October 15, 2010, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 'Stations of the Sufi Path' is a new translation of a key Sufi text and the first Persian work to address the stages, or stations, of the Sufi way.

The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez

By Robert Bly (trans) and Leonard Lewisohn (trans)

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9780061138836 | Collins, April 1, 2008, cover price $22.95

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9780061138843 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 2009), cover price $15.99

The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Product Description: This is the definitive introduction to the writings of 'Ali, who was the son-in-law to the Prophet Muhammad, the fourth caliph to Sunni Muslims, and the central figure in Shi'a Islam. Two essays in this anthology won awards at the International Congress on Iman 'Ali, Tehran, 2001...read more

By M. Ali. Lakhani, Leonard Lewisohn, Seyyed Hossein Nasr (introduced by) and Reza Shah-Kazemi

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9781933316260 | World Wisdom Books, January 30, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This is the definitive introduction to the writings of 'Ali, who was the son-in-law to the Prophet Muhammad, the fourth caliph to Sunni Muslims, and the central figure in Shi'a Islam.

'attar And the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight

Product Description: Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece Mantiq al-tayr, or The Conference of Birds, his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi...read more

By Leonard Lewisohn and Christopher Shackle

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9781845111489 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 9, 2007, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Farid al-Din 'Attar (d.

The Wisdom of Sufism

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By Leonard Lewisohn (compiler)

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9781851682607 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

The Heritage of Sufism: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750) the Safavid & Mughal Period

Product Description: This text studies and celebrates the culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, concentrating on the common Persianate Sufi tradition shared by both the society and learned elite. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor) and David Morgan (editor)

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9781851681938 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This text studies and celebrates the culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, concentrating on the common Persianate Sufi tradition shared by both the society and learned elite.

The Heritage of Sufism: The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150-1500)

Product Description: This collection examines the roots of the artistic renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9781851681891 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This collection examines the roots of the artistic renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.

The Heritage of Sufism: Classical Persian Sufism from Its Origins to Rumi (700-1300)

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By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9781851681884 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $65.00

Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Avaz

A full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, this title demonstrates the centrality of the Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics.

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9780700706648 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 10, 1999), cover price $190.00 | About this edition: A full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, this title demonstrates the centrality of the Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics.

Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari

Product Description: Shabistari's thought, opposition to Persia's mullahs, relationship to peripatetic philosophy and place in classical Persian literature.

By Leonard Lewisohn

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9780700703432 | Routledge, November 1, 1995, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: Shabistari's thought, opposition to Persia's mullahs, relationship to peripatetic philosophy and place in classical Persian literature.

A Critical Edition of the Divan of Muhammad Shirin Maghribi

By Leonard Lewisohn

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Miscellaneous:

9780203990186 | Routledge, December 31, 1994, cover price $110.00

Critical Edition of the Divan of Muhammad Shirin

Product Description: This edition of the Persian mystic Muhammad Shirin Maghribi's work enables his mystic poetry to be studied, and illustrates his development within the Tabriz School of Poetry. Maghribi was a follower of Ibn 'Arabi, and played an important role in the development of the Sufi ghazal...read more

By Leonard Lewisohn

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9780728601970 | Curzon Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This edition of the Persian mystic Muhammad Shirin Maghribi's work enables his mystic poetry to be studied, and illustrates his development within the Tabriz School of Poetry.

Classical Persian Sufism from Its Origins to Rumi

Product Description: Written by twenty-three of the worldâs foremost authorities on Islamic mysticism and Persian history, this study traces in detail the renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. It features essays on Rumiâs poetry and imagery; Sufi music and the idea of ecstasy; sainthood and Neoplatonism, and the unity of religion in Sufi philosophy...read more

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9780933546509 | Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Pubns/K.N.P., December 1, 1994, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Written by twenty-three of the worldâs foremost authorities on Islamic mysticism and Persian history, this study traces in detail the renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

Classical Persian Sufism from Its Origin to Rumi: From Its Origins to Rumi

By Leonard Lewisohn (editor)

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9780933546516 | Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Pubns/K.N.P., July 1, 1994, cover price $29.95

The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism

Product Description: The essays in this volume, by twenty-three of the world's foremost authorities on Islamic mysticism and Persian history, trace in detail the renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

By Leonard Lewisohn

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9780933546462 | Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Pubns/K.N.P., June 1, 1991, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The essays in this volume, by twenty-three of the world's foremost authorities on Islamic mysticism and Persian history, trace in detail the renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

Critical Edition of the Divan of Maghrebi

By Leonard Lewisohn

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Hardcover:

9780710303448 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, October 1, 1989, cover price $79.95

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