Rumi's World law and community in islamic thought on Their Principles

on Their Principles

Thomas Aquinas - Translation and Interpretation by: Joseph Bobik

are not empirical taxonomies that cut nature at the joints but semantic distinctions to which there may correspond no empirical classes

funny as well as spiritually profound

Rumi's World law and community in islamic thought on Their PrinciplesThis book (previously published as I Am Wind, You Are Fire) celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet, Rumi (12071273), through the story of his life, along with an enlightening examination of his ecstatic verse. Rumi lived the quiet life of a religious teacher in Anatolia until the age of thirty seven, when he came under the influence of a whirling dervish, Shams Tabriz, and was moved to a state of mystical ecstasy. One of