Sources & Further Reading

Peace, one and all…

As even a casual internet search will reveal, there are many books on the poetry, teaching and ideas of Mevlana Rumi.  A full accounting would run to many pages of text, and so, my purpose here is to list those books I have found personally useful.

Primary Scriptural Sources: Quran, Hadith & The Bible

I make use of a wide range of different translations of key scriptural resources.  Here are some of the most important.

• Abdullah Yusuf Ali (translator), The Holy Quran, Kitab Bhavan
• Bible Gateway
• MAS Abdul Haleem, The Qur’an, Oxford University Press
• Muhammad Asad (translator), The Message of the Quran, The Book Foundation
• Quran.com
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al. (translators), The Study Quran, Harper One
• Sunnah.com

Primary Sources: Masnavi, Ghazaliyyat & Rubaiyyat Texts

• A G Rawan Farhadi (translator), The Quatrains of Rumi, Sufi Dari Books
• Kabir Helminski, The Rumi Collection, Shambhala Publications
• Kabir Helminski, The Rumi Daybook: 365 Poems and Teachings from the Beloved Sufi Master, Shambhala Publications
• Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book One, Oxford World’s Classics
• Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book Two, Oxford World’s Classics
• Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book Three, Oxford World’s Classics
• Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book Four, Oxford World’s Classics
• Alan Williams, Spiritual Verses: the First Book of the Masnavi-yi Ma`navi, Penguin Classics

Primary Sources: Sermons, Letters & Other Sources

• Ahmad Aflaki & Camille Helminski (translator), Rumi and His Friends: Stories of the Lovers of God, Fons Vitae
• Mevlana Rumi & Wheeler M. Thackston (translator), Signs of the Unseen: the Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi, Shambhala Publications

Biographical Information

• Franklin D Lewis, Rumi Past and Present, East and West, Oneworld Publications

Commentarial Literature

• Kenan Rifai & Victoria Holbrook (translator), Listen: Commentary on the Spiritual Couplets of Mevlana Rumi, Fons Vitae
• Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, Rumi’s Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi, Book One, SUNY Press

Exploring Mevlana’s Teachings & Mevlevi Spirituality

• William C Chittick, The Sufi Path of Love: the Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, SUNY Press
• Kabir Helminski, Living Presence, Jeremy P Tarcher
• Kabir Helminski, The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation, Shambhala Publications
• Fateme Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric, University of South Carolina Press

Journals & Magazines

• Mawlana Rumi Review

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