Jalal al-Din Rumi: Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi

A thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, Rumi has become a twenty-first century bestselling author. Preceded by a short biographical sketch, this new translation from the original Persian text offers nearly 3,000 lines in 161 luminous poems from one of Rumi’s great works, the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. Chosen for their elegance, their focus on the spiritual path, and the relationship between teacher and disciple, many of these poems have been translated into English for the first time. These gifts are born both of Rumi’s pain of separation from Shams, his beloved teacher, and of his joy of union. He teaches us that there is no union without separation.