Rumi's World

"Annemarie Schimmel has been immersed in Rumi for over forty years. Her scholarship and devotion are magnificent. She has a deep understanding of the poems, the mystical puns, the music, and the dancy inner meanings of Rumi's work."

- Coleman Barks, translator of  (with John Moyne) Essential Rumi and Open Secret: Versions of Rumi

"An excellent and careful introduction, by a great eşpert, to a poes and teacher and spiritual master of absolute importance for the future of the world. We cannot know to much about Rumi, and in Annemarie Schimmel we have an exemplary guide to his mind."

- Andrew Harvey, author of Teachings of Rumi, and Love's Fire: Re-creations of Rumi

"This highly readable book reflects a lifetime of scholarly soncern and at the same time personal intimacy with the words and world of Rumi. In simple and poetic laguage the author takes the reader through the culteral heritage of Konya, where the saint is buried, his life and family, his transfıguring encounter with Shams al-Din Tabrizi, as well as his poetry and mystiacal teachings along with his unparalleled intellectual and spiritual legacy. Annemarie Schimmel has provided an at once scholarlarly, poetic, and existentially moving account of the life, works, and spiritual massage of tha supreme troubador of Persian Sufi literature and one fo the greatest saints of Islam."

- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University