All the King's Falcons: Rumi on Prophets and Revelation

by John Renard

2021-01-09 08:27:04

All the King''s Falcons draws out Rumi''s distinctive and creative insights into Islamic religious culture by focusing on his treatment of prophets as instruments in God''s communication with humankind. But there is more to Rumi''s views of revelati... Read more
All the King''s Falcons draws out Rumi''s distinctive and creative insights into Islamic religious culture by focusing on his treatment of prophets as instruments in God''s communication with humankind. But there is more to Rumi''s views of revelation than meets the eye, for he does not view the prophets, from Adam to Muhammad, merely as historic individuals who lived and died. Stories and images of the prophets provide this mystic and poet with a way of communicating his rich awareness of the reality of the divine message. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 1 in
Print pages238
PublisherState University of New York Press
Publication date October 11, 1994
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780791422229

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