Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi (translated by Wm Chittick) Peter Clark

Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi (translated by Wm Chittick) Peter ClarkNow that Rumi has become one of the best selling poets in North America, interest in his life and times has increased dramatically. Practically every collection of his poetry provides a thumbnail biography, highlighting his encounter with Shams i Tabrizi, the wandering mystic who became Rumis beloved companion. Rumi had been a sober scholar, teaching law and theology to a small circle of students, but the coming of Shams turned him into a devotee of

) was the founder of the Illuminationist or Ishraqi school

It was Rumi’s longing for the lost Shams that transformed him into one of the world’s greatest poets

the history of Islam

she was finding more evidence that Muslim scholars… had actually defended the idea of some form of transmutation

who had questioned him regarding “the aims and inmost nature of sciences and the perplexing depths of the religious systems” and the reasons for Ghazali’s actions at this stage of his life

he united the brilliant artistic fluorescence of Moorish culture with the spiritual and poetic expressions into a wonderfully comprehensive landscape

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this time and our choices are crucial to our fate in the next life

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the contributions of Muslim philosophers have largely been forgotten or even dismissed