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Poemas sufíes: Versión, selección, prólogo y notas de Alberto Manzano
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144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
1,171 books15.7k followersSufism inspired writings of Persian poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi; these writings express the longing of the soul for union with the divine.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī - also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master") and more popularly simply as Rumi - was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic who lived in Konya, a city of Ottoman Empire (Today's Turkey). His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages, and he has been described as the most popular poet and the best-selling poet in the United States.
His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu, as well as the literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai, Pashto, and Bengali.
Due to quarrels between different dynasties in Khorāṣān, opposition to the Khwarizmid Shahs who were considered devious by his father, Bahā ud-Dīn Wālad or fear of the impending Mongol cataclysm, his father decided to migrate westwards, eventually settling in the Anatolian city Konya, where he lived most of his life, composed one of the crowning glories of Persian literature, and profoundly affected the culture of the area.
When his father died, Rumi, aged 25, inherited his position as the head of an Islamic school. One of Baha' ud-Din's students, Sayyed Burhan ud-Din Muhaqqiq Termazi, continued to train Rumi in the Shariah as well as the Tariqa, especially that of Rumi's father. For nine years, Rumi practised Sufism as a disciple of Burhan ud-Din until the latter died in 1240 or 1241. Rumi's public life then began: he became an Islamic Jurist, issuing fatwas and giving sermons in the mosques of Konya. He also served as a Molvi (Islamic teacher) and taught his adherents in the madrassa. During this period, Rumi also travelled to Damascus and is said to have spent four years there.
It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e Tabrizi on 15 November 1244 that completely changed his life. From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic.
On the night of 5 December 1248, as Rumi and Shams were talking, Shams was called to the back door. He went out, never to be seen again. Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the death of, Shams found their expression in an outpouring of lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus.
Rumi found another companion in Salaḥ ud-Din-e Zarkub, a goldsmith. After Salah ud-Din's death, Rumi's scribe and favourite student, Hussam-e Chalabi, assumed the role of Rumi's companion. Hussam implored Rumi to write more. Rumi spent the next 12 years of his life in Anatolia dictating the six volumes of this masterwork, the Masnavi, to Hussam.
In December 1273, Rumi fell ill and died on the 17th of December in Konya.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī - also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master") and more popularly simply as Rumi - was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic who lived in Konya, a city of Ottoman Empire (Today's Turkey). His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages, and he has been described as the most popular poet and the best-selling poet in the United States.
His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu, as well as the literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai, Pashto, and Bengali.
Due to quarrels between different dynasties in Khorāṣān, opposition to the Khwarizmid Shahs who were considered devious by his father, Bahā ud-Dīn Wālad or fear of the impending Mongol cataclysm, his father decided to migrate westwards, eventually settling in the Anatolian city Konya, where he lived most of his life, composed one of the crowning glories of Persian literature, and profoundly affected the culture of the area.
When his father died, Rumi, aged 25, inherited his position as the head of an Islamic school. One of Baha' ud-Din's students, Sayyed Burhan ud-Din Muhaqqiq Termazi, continued to train Rumi in the Shariah as well as the Tariqa, especially that of Rumi's father. For nine years, Rumi practised Sufism as a disciple of Burhan ud-Din until the latter died in 1240 or 1241. Rumi's public life then began: he became an Islamic Jurist, issuing fatwas and giving sermons in the mosques of Konya. He also served as a Molvi (Islamic teacher) and taught his adherents in the madrassa. During this period, Rumi also travelled to Damascus and is said to have spent four years there.
It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e Tabrizi on 15 November 1244 that completely changed his life. From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic.
On the night of 5 December 1248, as Rumi and Shams were talking, Shams was called to the back door. He went out, never to be seen again. Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the death of, Shams found their expression in an outpouring of lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus.
Rumi found another companion in Salaḥ ud-Din-e Zarkub, a goldsmith. After Salah ud-Din's death, Rumi's scribe and favourite student, Hussam-e Chalabi, assumed the role of Rumi's companion. Hussam implored Rumi to write more. Rumi spent the next 12 years of his life in Anatolia dictating the six volumes of this masterwork, the Masnavi, to Hussam.
In December 1273, Rumi fell ill and died on the 17th of December in Konya.
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June 19, 2008
Todas las primaveras, los libros florecen entre los árboles del Parque del Retiro...
Y entre tanto tenderete, la firma mediática de libros, el público como marabunta consumidora de papel... acudo a cumplir con la tradición anual de adquirir un libro de poesía en el puesto de Hiperión, monumento (efímero, como todo lo humano) a la poesía.
Este año me siento trascendente, por lo que adquirí la compilación de poemas sufíes que se trata en esta reseña. Breves fragmentos prosaicos (no se, el traductor ha preferido escondernos el ritmo) que son un pálido reflejo de una reflexión sobre la trascendencia, la inasibilidad de la experiencia mística, el contrasentido del amor divino explicado con palabras humanas... Delicados, frágiles, pensados y sensibles, van más allá de las palabras.
Muy sabrosos, aunque requieren (como ocurre en general con obras de otras tradiciones culturales) abstenerse de juicios previos e ideas preconcebidas.
Y entre tanto tenderete, la firma mediática de libros, el público como marabunta consumidora de papel... acudo a cumplir con la tradición anual de adquirir un libro de poesía en el puesto de Hiperión, monumento (efímero, como todo lo humano) a la poesía.
Este año me siento trascendente, por lo que adquirí la compilación de poemas sufíes que se trata en esta reseña. Breves fragmentos prosaicos (no se, el traductor ha preferido escondernos el ritmo) que son un pálido reflejo de una reflexión sobre la trascendencia, la inasibilidad de la experiencia mística, el contrasentido del amor divino explicado con palabras humanas... Delicados, frágiles, pensados y sensibles, van más allá de las palabras.
Muy sabrosos, aunque requieren (como ocurre en general con obras de otras tradiciones culturales) abstenerse de juicios previos e ideas preconcebidas.
September 6, 2024
Un libro de poesía que enmarca la característica de su tiempo. Muchos de sus escritos y poemas me parecieron exquisitos y sublimes. Con mensajes ocultos. Otro me parecieron no tener mucho sentido y con cambio de temas muy abruptos en una misma oración. Aún así sus imágenes literarias fueron un despertar en el alma. Pero… su autor divaga mucho y entre mezcla su gran conocimiento, entre datos del coran, datos históricos musulmanes, monólogos persa y algunas egipcias todas mezcladas.
November 22, 2023
“Aunque de izquierda a derecha haya inútil crítica y vilipendio, ese hombre que ha perdido su corazón no se aparta del Amor. La luna esparce luz, y el perro le ladra; ¿qué daño hace eso a la luna? Tal es la especialidad del perro. El amante es una montaña, no una paja para ser arrastrada por el viento; es una bandada de moscas que el viento ha detenido. Si es la regla que el Amor tenga la culpa, es también la regla para el Amor hacerse el sordo.”
May 16, 2025
El sufí percibe la vida como un remolino de giros que evocan amor, vino y creación. La danza simboliza el movimiento vital, mientras que la meditación y el amor enriquecen la existencia. La naturaleza y el tiempo son fuerzas que inspiran, y la ternura del niño ofrece una conexión profunda; donde la ternura y el asombro revelan lo desconocido: conexión divina.
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May 16, 2024
Aunque tiene pasajes muy bellos, se me hizo en general repetitivo en temas de amor y religión, si fuera una selección de los mejores poemas y tuviera una extensión de 1/4 del libro, sería un 5 estrellas.
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