sufi poetry, persian

Presents English translations of the primary poems of thirteenth-century spiritual poet Jelaluddin Rumi.

A retelling of the Sufi parable, "The Conference of the Birds," a poem written in the thirteenth century, in which the birds of the Earth face seven invisible monsters in order to save the world.

Features poems from the Divan to Shams-e Tabriz, odes to the inspirational and mysterious figure who changed Rumi's life and led him to spiritual enlightenment.