The drowned book : ecstatic and earthy reflections of Bahauddin, the father of Rumi

Authors:Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, Coleman Barks, John Moyne

Summary:An English-language translation of the writings by the Islamic religious leader and father of Sufi poet Rumi includes a collection of mystical poems and observations on such topics as nature, humanity, and the mysteries of life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Print Book, English, 2004

Edition:1st ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, 2004

Genre:Early works to 1800

Physical Description:xli, 149 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN:

9780060591946, 9780060750633, 0060591943, 0060750634

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:53903757

Subjects:

Early works

Early works to 1800

Islamic sermons, Persian

Mysticism Islam

Mysticism Islam Early works to 1800

Mysticisme Islam Ouvrages avant 1800

Soufisme Ouvrages avant 1800

Sufism

Sufism Early works to 1800

Contents:

Bahauddin's Maarif

A Note on Translation and Versions of Sama

xxix

The Manuscripts

xxxix

BOOK ONE

Blue Robe

(1)

One of the Ways God Tastes

(1)

This Cup of Seeing, My Wine

(1)

Sleep-Tree

(1)

Fragrance of an Invisible Flower

(1)

Morning Salaams

(1)

Boiling Pot

(1)

A Sweetness in Distance

(1)

Still Growing

(1)

Forgiveness and Impulse

(1)

Loaves at Table

(2)

The Night Vigil

(1)

Under the Garden

(1)

Waiting

(1)

Rust

(1)

Farming Work and Attention to Friendship

(1)

Suspended

(1)

The Ways of Essence

(1)

Appetites

(1)

The Call to Pleasure

(1)

Impudent Banter

(1)

In Each

(1)

What I Have Just Written

(1)

Prison and Presence

(1)

Doubting

(1)

These Attractions

(1)

Describing a Taste

(1)

The Beauty of a Face

(1)

No Sure Sense

(1)

Apart from Purposes

(1)

A King in Half-Sleep

(1)

The Quality of What Dies and the Grandeur of the Unmanifest

(1)

Bread and Praise

(1)

This Glory of Emptiness

(1)

One Hour

(1)

Wondering Argument

(1)

Several Identical Dreams

(1)

High Well-Being

(1)

Cities and Blessed Dark

(1)

Blind Trust

(1)

Mosquitoes

(1)

Steadiness

(1)

Massive Root System

(1)

Every Invigoration

(1)

Four Birds

(1)

The Only Buyer

(1)

Dignity and Choice

(1)

A Wild Madman-Lover

(1)

Motion and Stillness

(2)

Oghol the Fool

(1)

Islam Is for Finding Friends

(1)

Fall Wherever I Fall

(1)

The Company of Other Goodnesses

(1)

Throw It to the Thieves

(1)

Here We Sit

(1)

The Praise-Place

(1)

We May Be Lying

(1)

Why Don't We Cry

(1)

Out Looking for Pleasure

(1)

Clear for Me the Me

(1)

Serious Courtship

(1)

Why Sufis Wear Graveclothes

(1)

If There Is No Joseph

(1)

Jacob

(1)

Ways of Knowing the Unseen

(1)

Take No Credit

(1)

Friendship Brings Beauty into Your Life

(1)

White-Bird Sentences

(2)

The Special Strength of Muhammad's Lineage

(2)

A Bridge Called Saraat

(1)

Friday Morning

(1)

The Daughter of Judge Sharaf and I One Morning

(1)

Stay Near This Door

(1)

Why Say Autumn

(1)

Great Changes in Me I Cannot Describe

(1)

The Sun Is a Moth

(1)

Spirit-Rationality

(1)

Being Taken

(1)

Out Cords

(1)

The Spring of My Soul

(1)

Don't Go to Others

(1)

The Chain of Evidence

(2)

Self-Help

(1)

Individual Bargains

(1)

Money-Fragrance

(1)

Islam and Money

(1)

The Return Message

(1)

White-Hot, Red-Orange, Ash

(1)

Armspread, Wingspan

(1)

The Young Woman on the Steps

(1)

No Further Delight

(1)

Our Animal Energies and Our Beauty

(1)

The Sophists and Abu Hanifa

(1)

Eating a Piece of Bread

(1)

Profusion

(1)

Own Your Faults Openly

(1)

To Make Abstinence Impossible

(1)

Lust Alone Does Not Create

(2)

Doing Laundry

(1)

The Six Tiers Above

(1)

Doctrinal Arguing

(1)

How Will He Hear

(3)

BOOK TWO

Sama

(1)

The Two Trees

(1)

The Khotan Ceremony

(1)

Sleeping in the Mosque

(2)

Feeling Rained on with Blessings

(1)

The Beans of Conversation

(1)

The Pivot

(1)

Two Ways of Working

(1)

Pleasure We Can Never Have Enough Of

(1)

A Turning Ball of Silk

(1)

Inside Your Work

(1)

Mint

(1)

Drops of Muddy Water on My Eyelashes

(1)

Grace and the Curve of a Hip

(1)

Grafting the Red Rose to the White Poplar

(2)

A Preliminary Mourner

(1)

Honesty

(1)

Losing Grace

(1)

Pairs

100

(1)

Fanaticisms

100

(1)

My Mother's Temper

101

(1)

A Beautifully Planted Park

102

(1)

Fumes

102

(1)

Various Fears

103

(1)

Where's the Rest

103

(1)

More Power

104

(1)

Free Choice and Fatalism

105

(1)

Vital Companions

105

(2)

A Boat Named Quandary

107

(1)

Aliveness

108

(1)

Someday

108

(1)

A Blur

109

(1)

Be Easier with Your Plans

110

(1)

Tending Children

111

(1)

Decisionmaking Exercises

111

(1)

Some Unfixable Truth

112

(1)

Digestion

112

(2)

Lovemaking

114

(1)

Seed and Country People

114

(1)

What to Begin Next

115

(1)

Troop Movements in Old Battles

116

(2)

The Unique Quality of Your Desire

118

(1)

Stuck in a Nowhere Town

119

(1)

Nakedness

120

(1)

Bukhara for Confections

120

(1)

The Great Crocodile

121

(1)

Cure for a Bad Stomachache

122

(1)

My Mother's Sadness

122

(1)

Tufts

122

(1)

A Little Crushed Birdlime

123

(1)

Any More Than a Duck

123

(1)

Baghdad and Your Body

124

(1)

Rigid and Ethereal

124

(1)

One Nightwatch

125

(1)

How Alive Do You Want to Be

126

(1)

Miracle Notes

126

(1)

Two Dreams

127

(1)

Owning Is Inhuman

128

(1)

Connecting Sentience

129

(1)

Orbits of Attention

129

(1)

Changing Schools

130

(1)

Planets and Plants

130

(1)

Spring 1210

131

(2)

Commentary

133

(16)

Endpapers: The Flowers

149