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The Phoenix

By Hafiz
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This poem by Hafiz celebrates the Phoenix of Islamic mythology.

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Love’s Ripening: Rumi on the Heart’s Journey

Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets.

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Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski
2025
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The Masnavi, Book Four

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2017
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Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems is a collection of poetry that provides a refuge of quiet clarity very much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.

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Phyllis Cole-Dai (editor), Ruby Wilson (editor)
2017
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The Masnavi, Book One

Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2008
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The Masnavi, Book Three

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2014
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The Masnavi, Book Two

The most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called "the Qur'an in Persian". Book Two is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2008
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News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

In News of the Universe, Robert Bly has assembled a uniquely cross-cultural anthology of poems that, taken together, illuminate his vision of human history over the past several centuries.

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Robert Bly (editor)
2015
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The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures

Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature.

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Robert Bly (editor)
1999
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