Rumi :A Spiritual Biography
by Wines, Leslie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in near fine jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0824523520
- ISBN 13
- 9780824523527
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Crossroad Pub, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in near fine jacket./fine. Small quarto in illus orange-pink jacket; 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm; bibliographical references (pages 184-185) and index. "In this, her first book, Leslie Wines writes with keen observation and historical candor of both the spiritual and social tapestry of Rumi's world. Not afraid to tackle a difficult and often elusive subject, through sharp prose and quick pen strokes Wines soon has Rumi emerging as a comprehensive human being and a testament to the capacity, resilience and transcendence of the human spirit - as equally illuminating in our own highly secular age as he was in his medieval Islamic times."--Jacket. / Mevleviyeh members -- Biography. Sufis -- Biography. Poets, Persian -- Biography. Soufis -- Biographies. Poètes persans -- Biographies. Mevleviyeh members. Poets, Persian. Sufis. Sufis -- Biography. Poets, Persian -- Biography. Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273. .
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93760
- Title
- Rumi :A Spiritual Biography
- Author
- Wines, Leslie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in near fine jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0824523520
- ISBN 13
- 9780824523527
- Publisher
- The Crossroad Pub
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Spirituality and Religion;
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