![]() Barks says, “to confuse scholars who would divide Rumi’s poetry into the accepted categories.” The categories of which Barks speaks are general ones that anyone might use to organize any writer/thinker who created a monumental amount of output: odes, quatrains, poems, discourses, letters and sermons. The Essential Rumi is a book that separates the writings of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi into 28 different categories. Instead, he distills age-old questions and spiritual wisdom into crystal-clear images and metaphors that shed brilliant light on what it means to be a spiritual being having a human experience-which we all are. None of these poems or observations are long, dry philosophical treatises that is not Rumi’s style. Translated by Coleman Barks, these words are just as powerful and important to today’s society as they were when first written in the thirteenth century. ![]() The Essential Rumi brings together the timeless poetry of one of the world’s most revered spiritual thinkers. ![]() 1-Page Summary of The Essential Rumi Overall Summary ![]()
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