Maryam Mafi

Paperback

9781571747464

This fresh prose translation of 105 short teaching stories by Rumi, which form the core of the six-volume Masnavi, explores the hidden spiritual aspects of everyday experience. Rumi transforms the seemingly mundane events of daily life into profound Sufi teaching moments.

Stories include:

The Fly Who Thought She Was a Sailor

The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox

The Deaf Man and His Sick Neighbour

Chinese and Greek Painters

The King’s Falcon

Moses and the Shepherd

A Sackful of Pebbles

Shaykh on the Boat

The Tree of Eternal Life

Silence is the Reply to Fools

Three Fish

Majnoun

Poet in Aleppo