Poetry
Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology
Martin Lings
In recent years, much attention has been lavished on Persian Sufi Poetry. The vast treasures of Arabic poetry has been left virtually untouched. In this book, we have for the first time, a compilation and translation of some of the great masterpieces of Arabic Sufi poetry with the original Arabic in the facing pages. Poems include those of:
Rabiah al-Adawiyah
Dhun Nun al-Misri
Sahl al-Tustari
Abu Husayn an-Nuri
Sumnum al-Muhibb
Mansur al-Hallaj
Abu Bakr ash-Shibli
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Muhyi al-Din ibn Arabi
Umar ibn al-Farid
Laughing Buddha, Weeping Sufi
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Collection of poems.
“Laughing Buddha sits down with Weeping
Sufi and they sing a song together
that sets fire to the furniture and makes the river run backwards for a moment while its
fish inside change scales and close their?eyes for the first time in their lives”
