The Essential Rumi
1273 · 302 pages
Grief for a wandering dervish named Shams turned Rumi into a poet of longing for God. His great Masnavi opens with a reed flute crying for the bed it was cut from.
★ 7.4
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Revelations of Divine Love
1395 · 288 pages
The earliest surviving English book by a woman came from an anchoress sealed into a cell beside a Norwich church. Julian saw all creation lying in her palm, small as a hazelnut.
★ 6.5