About the Book: Forbidden Rumi The Suppressed Poems Of Rumi On Love Heresy and
Intoxication
The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume
of the Divan of Rumi
. Presents Rumis most heretical and free-form poems
. Includes introductions and commentary that provide both 13th-century context
and modern interpretation
After his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi,
the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling
dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that
only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could
provide the satisfaction that the