Translated from the Persian by A. J. Arberry
Annotated and prepared by Hasan Javadi
Foreword to the new and corrected edition by Franklin D. Lewis
General Editor, Ehsan Yarshater
The University of Chicago Press – Chicago & London
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The translations in this volume were originally published in two books.
The first volume, including the first 200 poems, or ghazals, appeared in 1968 under the title ** Mystical Poems of Rūmī 1, First Selection, Poems 1– 200 **. It was part of a UNESCO Collection of Representative Works and was accepted in the translation series of Persian works jointly sponsored by the Royal Institute of Translation of Teheran and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…..The second selection, prepared by Hasan Javadi, was published in 1979 by Bibliotheca Persica as number 23 in their Persian Heritage Series, edited by Ehsan Yarshater with the assistance of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University. It was reprinted in 1991 by the University of Chicago Press under the title ** The Mystical Poems of Rūmī 2, Second Selection, Poems 201–400 **.
This combined and corrected edition contains the text and notes
from those two books as well as significant revisions based on a new reading of Arberry’s original handscript and some new notes and a new foreword by Franklin D. Lewis.
Published by arrangement with Bibliotheca Persica.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
Poems 1–200 and notes to poems 1–200 © 1968 by A. J. Arberry
Poems 201–400 and notes to poems 201–400 © 1979 by Ehsan Yarshater
Combined and Corrected edition with a new Foreword by Franklin D. Lewis © 2009
by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved.
Originally published in two volumes. Poems 201–400 originally published in 1979 as No. 23 in the Persian Heritage Series, Bibliotheca Persica.
University of Chicago Press edition 2009
isbn-13: 978-0-226-73162-9 (paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-73162-6 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207–1273.
[Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi. English. Selections]
Mystical poems of Rumi / translated from the Persian by A.J. Arberry ; annotated and prepared by Hasan Javadi; foreword to the new and corrected edition by Franklin D. Lewis ; general editor, Ehsan Yarshater.
Includes bibliographical references.
isbn-13: 978-0-226-73162-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-73162-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207–1273 — Translations into English.
2. Sufi poetry, Persian — Translations into
English.
I. Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905–1969.
II. Javadi, Hasan.
III. Lewis,
Franklin, 1961–
IV. Yar-Shater, Ehsan.
V. Title.
Written by: Andreas Ismail Mohr