RUMI AND SUFISM

This book is an excellent introduction to one of the greatest spiritual masters of all time. Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch gives a clea r and scholarly exposition of his life and thought/ plus a history of the subsequent development of the Mevlevi Order and a good int roduction to Sufism in general. She draws out the universality of Rumis thought, describing how in his lifetime he had followers fr om all the religionsincluding atheists. Containging as it does extracts from Rumis letters and works which are not yet available i n English, t...[Read more]