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Jelaluddin Rumi’s preeminent translator is Coleman Barks. The message Barks conveys is of Rumi’s ecstatic poetry, which, as Barks said to Bill Moyers, PBS journalist, is "trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ... what Jesus referred to when he said, ‘The kingdom of God is within you.’
Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions, said, "If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is truly remarkable." What qualifies Barks to translate Rumi? Barks observes, "I’ve always had this contact with the ecstatic part of myself. I’ve always felt lucky, like this life is really fortunate for me. It seems a lot of grace has come to me.www.rumi.net
This is the site of Shahram Shiva, the noted Iranian Rumi scholar and translatorwww.andrewharvey.net
Andrew Harvey was born in South India in 1952 and lived there until he was nine years old, a period he credits with shaping his vision of the inner unity of all religions. He left India to attend private school in England, and entered Oxford University in 1970 to study history on a scholarship. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded the Fellow of All Souls College, England's highest academic honor.
Andrew Harvey is the author of The Way of Passion : A Celebration of Rumi and The Teachings of Rumi, among others.www.deepakchopra.com
Deepak Chopra is director of educational programs at The Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California. He is the best-selling author of nineteen books, including the slender, beautiful volume entitled The Love Poems Of Rumi
In it he writes, “Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.”www.greenartprints.com
Michael GreenThe work that graces the cover of the CD, and the home page of this web site, is from The Illustrated Rumi, a marvelous collaboration of Coleman Bark’s Rumi translations and Michael Green’s artwork.
