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Franklin D. Lewis was an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and Deputy Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He taught classes on Persian language and literature, Islamic thought, Sufism, Baha'i Studies, translation studies, and Middle Eastern cinema.
Professor Lewis studied at U.C. Berkeley and did his graduate work in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His dissertation on the life and works of the 12th-century mystical poet Sana'i, and the establishment of the ghazal genre in Persian literature, won the Foundation of Iranian Studies be ...more

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	Mystical Poems of Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, A.J. Arberry (Translator), Ehsan Yarshater (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1968 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rumi: Past and Present, East and West 4.40 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2000 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	When Our Eyelids Close: Comfort In Times of Loss 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rumi 2nd (second) edition Text Only 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	RUMI, JALALUDDIN (1207–1273): An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World</i> 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World</i> 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PAST AND PRESENT, EAST AND WEST by Franklin D. Lewis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الرومي ماضيا وحاضرا شرقا وغربا: حياة جلال الدين الرومي وتعاليمه وشعره - الجزء الأول by Franklin D. Lewis, عيسى علي العاكوب (مترجم) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الرومي ماضيا وحاضرا شرقا وغربا: حياة جلال الدين الرومي وتعاليمه وشعره - الجزء الثاني by Franklin D. Lewis, عيسى علي العاكوب (مترجم) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“He is like light and wisdom is his Gabriel.”
― Franklin D. Lewis, الرومي ماضيا وحاضرا شرقا وغربا حياة جلال الدين الرومي وتعاليمه وشعره

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“Twain had already traveled himself to the Middle East in 1867, the experience of which he details in The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s Progress (1869), and from the 1870s was much captivated by a different Persian poet, cOmar Khayyam, whose Rubáiyát Twain described as “the only poem I have ever carried about with me.”
― Franklin D. Lewis, Rumi - Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teachings, and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi

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