Rumi Books

Rumi: poet, teacher, Sufi spiritual leader in the 13th century

Rumi has had a profound effect on my life. I first discovered him about 25 years ago. He has been "re-born" in the Western world through the thoughtful and gifted translations made by Coleman Barks and others. I have made this list of Rumi books for my friends, and for those of you who find yourselves here wondering about this Rumi guy. Rumi did not write down his poems, they all sprung forth and were spoken first. His students were the ones who recorded them. There are about 20,000 or more in total.

Only Breath

Poetry by RUMI -- Only Breath

One of 21 video poems in Four Seasons Productions newly released Moving Poetry Series - Three innovative new films - RANT * RAVE * RIFF. Only Breath was written in the 13th century by the Sufi mystic poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi and translated and recited in our film by Coleman Barks. Our politicians and generals would do well to absorb the lessons of this poem. To learn more about this provocative new series, how to purchase directly from our online store or on Amazon.com and for the full transcripts of our films poems, visit our website at www.4spFilm.com. MUST be experienced in full sound on a big screen.

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Jalalud'din Rumi is one of the world's most revered mystical poets. During his lifetime he produced a prolific range of inspiring and devotional poetry which encapsulates the sufi's experience of union with the divine. These timeless classics have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, as Rumi has become one of our most popular poets. Although Rumi was a Sufi and a great scholar of the Qu'ran his appeal reaches across religious and social divisions. Even during his lifetime he was noted for his cosmopolitan outlook. His funeral, which lasted 40 days, was attended by Muslims, Jews, Persians, Christians and Greeks.

Rumi was born in 1207 on the Eastern shores of the Persian Empire. He was born in the city of Balkh( in what is now Afghanistan), and finally settled in the town of Konya, in what is now Turkey. It was a period of remarkable social and political turbulence. The 13th Century was the era of the crusades; also the area where Rumi lived was under constant threat of Mongol invasion. The great upheavals Rumi faced during his life is said to have influenced much of his poetry.

(portrait from from www.RumionFire.com)

Rumi on Fire Website: a tribute to Mevlana Jalal-e-Din Mevlavi Rumi

Rumi: Poet of the Heart

Rumi: Poet Of The Heart

"Rumi - Poet of the Heart" is a fifty-five minute documentary that introduces us to the work of Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi. This is accomplished through an intimate dialog with Coleman Barks, his English language translator. The work also features the narration of actress Debra Winger and sensitive observations by scholars such as Huston Smith, Robert Bly, Simone Fattal, Deepak Chopra and the Sufi mystic Sheik Jelaluddin Loras.

Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi Calendars

Enlightened Rumi 2010 Wall Calendar

by: Brush Dance Publishing

Amazon Price: $12.55 (as of 12/01/2009)

Illuminated Rumi 2010 Wall Calendar

by: Jelaluddin Rumi

Amazon Price: $12.59 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi 2010 Wall Calendar

by: Brush Dance Publishing

Amazon Price: $12.55 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi, Heart of the Beloved 2010 Wall Calendar

by: Jelaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks

Amazon Price: $12.59 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi - Pocket 2010 Pocket Calendar

by: Brush Dance Publishing

Amazon Price: $7.95 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi - Eng 2010 Eng Calendar

by: Brush Dance Publishing

Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi - Mini 2010 Mini Calendar

by: Brush Dance Publishing

Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 12/01/2009)

Coleman Barks

look here for schedule of Rumi readings by Coleman Barks

Website of Coleman Barks: He lives and writes in Athens, Georgia

Interviews from New Dimensions Radio

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Rumi and the Evoloving Soul with Coleman Barks: one hour program description: Rumi has the magnificent idea that human consciousness is a continually evolving thing and that we never stop anywhere. We've dissolved as a mineral into plant life, and from plant life into animal life, and from there into human beings. We are not finished. Barks tells us that Rumi has asked, "What have I ever lost by dying? Why should I fear the next death?" Barks goes on to say, "We've died to all these different ways of being, regions of consciousness, and we will die to this one. But there is no need to fear it because it has always developed into something more magnificent. I just love that idea of the evolving soul." This deep conversation between Michael Toms and Coleman Barks will take you into the heart of approaching the divine and why we all love Rumi's poetry.
The Ecstatic Soul-Jelaluddin Ruim, His Life and Poetry with Coleman Barks: one hour program description: How does a body of poetry written in a remote part of the world find it's way to "best-seller" lists published in leading newspapers in the U.S. over seven hundred years later? What is the compelling quality inherent in great literature that resonates throughout the ages? Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Jelalludin Rumi's poetry, explores the genius, mystery and rapture of Rumi's work; why he has become the most-read poet in America, and what his poetry has in common with the immortal writings of Dickinson, Emerson and Thoreau. "His poetry reflects the transcendent longing that we all feel," says Barks. "Rumi speaks to the times. He sees the divine in grace and kindness, and also in the terrible things," revealing to us the ecstasy that resides at the deepest core of all experience, and the way out of sorrow."
Rumi: Poet of Divine Ecstasy with Coleman Barks: one hour program description: Drunk with the Divine, Rumi wrote twenty thousand poems of mystical, ineffable love of God. "There is a ferocity in his longing that maybe we don't understand," says Barks. Listen in and understand a little better. A wondrous, exhilarating look at the exultant poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi poet, with Coleman Barks.
Rumi: The Supreme Mystical Guide with Andrew Harvey: one hour program description: There is probably no one more qualified to illuminate the life and work of Jalaluddin Rumi, the great thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet, than Andrew Harvey, who possesses the very eloquence and passion he admires in Rumi's work. Harvey likens Rumi to Buddha, Ramakrishna, Shakespeare and Jesus Christ: "For me, I've come to understand the heart of Christ through the heart of Rumi; they seem to me to be linked in the enterprise of bringing all human beings into the fire of the sacred heart." Discover the fire, the madness, the passion and the mystery that is Rumi, revived by a man born to translate his "absolutely lucid but totally molten speech of the Divine heart itself."

Rumi on twitter

short Rumi blips are added here daily......it has been fun to put Rumi on twitter, I think he would have found this amusing that 800 years later he is spoken in this way. These Rumi sharings do not take the place of reading the complete words. Or, better still, saying the poems out loud, sharing them with family and friends, and the children in your lives.

Dec 1, 2009 @ 5:59 pm

to @Shannon_Buckley Sufism is mystical, deeper Islam. It's core material going beyond all religion, including itself, into pure spirituality
Dec 1, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

Rumi: Diminish what you give your physical self. Your spiritual eye will begin to open.
Dec 1, 2009 @ 10:44 am

burnout blip: The relationship, between each of us and the energy that spawned us, is reciprocal. We both evolve together in the perfection.
Nov 30, 2009 @ 8:22 pm

Rumi: Do you pay regular visits to YOURSELF? Don't argue or answer rationally.
Nov 30, 2009 @ 9:52 am

burnout blip: For the next two weeks go inward, get quiet, slow down, be still. Don't rush the season, whatever season it is for you. Smile.
Nov 29, 2009 @ 8:41 pm

for @TLOL Yes, craniosacral work is the most profound way to "touch" consciousness that I know. It is misunderstood by many people though.
Nov 29, 2009 @ 5:38 pm

Rumi: Leave childhood. Go the banquet of true human beings. Split open the cultural mould. Put your head up out of the sack.
Nov 29, 2009 @ 10:36 am

burnout blip: The world awaits the giving of your authentic self. Offer the gift of kind attention to others each day. Kindness is the key.
Nov 28, 2009 @ 7:02 pm

Rumi: Be concentrated and leonine in the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
Nov 28, 2009 @ 10:56 am

burnout blip: Happiness seems to be a fleeting experience because we just don't know how to recognize it, waiting inside like an old friend.

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Rumi versions by Coleman Barks

Bringing Rumi to our times....

Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart

by: Coleman Barks

Amazon Price: $14.03 (as of 12/01/2009)

The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

by: Coleman Barks

Amazon Price: $12.23 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

by: Coleman Barks

Amazon Price: $11.96 (as of 12/01/2009)

A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

by: Coleman Barks

Amazon Price: $15.80 (as of 12/01/2009)

Essential Rumi

by: Jalal al-Din Rumi

Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 12/01/2009)

Say I Am You: Poetry Interspersed With Stories of Rumi and Shams

by: Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John Moyne, Coleman Barks

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Open Secret: Versions of Rumi

by: John Moyne, Coleman Barks

Amazon Price: $11.66 (as of 12/01/2009)

Like This: More Poems of Rumi

by: Jalaluddin Rumi

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The Glance: A Vision of Rumi

by: Jalaloddin Rumi

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Rumi: Voice of Longing

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Like This: Rumi ; Versions by Coleman Barks

by: Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks, A. J. Arberry

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The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi

by: Coleman Barks, John Moyne

Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems

by: Jelaluddin Rumi

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The Glance: A Vision of Rumi

by: Jalaloddin Rumi

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This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi

by: Jelaluddin Rumi

Amazon Price: $13.63 (as of 12/01/2009)

Rumi: We Are Three : New Rumi Poems

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Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poems & Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi

by: Jelaluddin Rumi

Amazon Price: $8.50 (as of 12/01/2009)

Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi

by: Coleman Barks, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

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Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi

by: Jelaluddin Rumi

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Rumi: One-Handed Basket Weaving : Poems on the Theme of Work

by: Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks

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Rumi read by Coleman Barks

A bit of Rumi beauty translated and read by Coleman Barks

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The Poetry of Rumi

Robert Bly and Coleman Barks perform the poetry of Rumi at one of the Mythic Journeys conferences. Musical accompaniment by Eugene Friesen and Arto Tuncboyaciyan.

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