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Bestsellers
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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Disappointed
- By G. Vidal on 04-09-20
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, and others
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The Prophet
- By: Khalil Gibrán
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Kahil Gibran's masterpiece, Almustafa, the chosen and beloved, must leave the port of Orphalese upon the ship he has waited upon for 12 years. As he descends to the waterfront, the people of Orphalese gather to question him and hear his wisdom on important topics of their daily lives....
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Words of wisdom
- By Liam Hannah Wade on 10-11-20
By: Khalil Gibrán
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Recognizing the Stranger
- On Palestine and Narrative
- By: Isabella Hammad
- Narrated by: Isabella Hammad
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative.
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Not that insightful
- By LitCrit on 12-07-24
By: Isabella Hammad
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Forest of Noise
- Poems
- By: Mosab Abu Toha
- Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha shares a new collection of poems about life in Gaza.
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Beautiful, powerful, and devastating
- By N.K. on 10-25-24
By: Mosab Abu Toha
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Gaza Writes Back
- Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
- By: Refaat Alareer
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Lameece Issaq
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, edited by Refaat Alareer, is a compelling collection of short stories from 15 young writers in Gaza....
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Powerful. Sad and beautiful at the same time.
- By Gheed M. Murtadi on 05-02-24
By: Refaat Alareer
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Shahnameh
- The Epic of the Persian Kings
- By: Ferdowsi
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Francis Ford Coppola - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The new, impeccable translation and adaptation of the Epic of Persian Kings by Ahmad Sadri brought to life a host of heroic characters and wove their adventures into a thrilling story spanning thousands of years....
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Learn about Persian culture through epic tales
- By Anonymous User on 01-23-19
By: Ferdowsi
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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Disappointed
- By G. Vidal on 04-09-20
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, and others
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The Prophet
- By: Khalil Gibrán
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Kahil Gibran's masterpiece, Almustafa, the chosen and beloved, must leave the port of Orphalese upon the ship he has waited upon for 12 years. As he descends to the waterfront, the people of Orphalese gather to question him and hear his wisdom on important topics of their daily lives....
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Words of wisdom
- By Liam Hannah Wade on 10-11-20
By: Khalil Gibrán
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Recognizing the Stranger
- On Palestine and Narrative
- By: Isabella Hammad
- Narrated by: Isabella Hammad
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative.
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Not that insightful
- By LitCrit on 12-07-24
By: Isabella Hammad
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Forest of Noise
- Poems
- By: Mosab Abu Toha
- Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha shares a new collection of poems about life in Gaza.
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Beautiful, powerful, and devastating
- By N.K. on 10-25-24
By: Mosab Abu Toha
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Gaza Writes Back
- Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
- By: Refaat Alareer
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Lameece Issaq
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, edited by Refaat Alareer, is a compelling collection of short stories from 15 young writers in Gaza....
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Powerful. Sad and beautiful at the same time.
- By Gheed M. Murtadi on 05-02-24
By: Refaat Alareer
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Shahnameh
- The Epic of the Persian Kings
- By: Ferdowsi
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Francis Ford Coppola - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The new, impeccable translation and adaptation of the Epic of Persian Kings by Ahmad Sadri brought to life a host of heroic characters and wove their adventures into a thrilling story spanning thousands of years....
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Learn about Persian culture through epic tales
- By Anonymous User on 01-23-19
By: Ferdowsi
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The Rumi Prescription
- How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life
- By: Melody Moezzi
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself....
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Boring as hell
- By Zarafshan on 07-18-21
By: Melody Moezzi
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I Want Burning
- The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla
- By: Coleman Barks
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In I Want Burning, Coleman Barks fuses his passionate scholarship with a deep feeling for the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla....
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I love Rumi and Coleman Barks interpretation.
- By Kellie without the K on 03-24-17
By: Coleman Barks
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The Prophet
- A masterpiece of poetic philosophy
- By: Khalil Gibran
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve years - that's how long the prophet Almustafa has been waiting for the ship that is to take him back home. The people of the City of Orphalese...
By: Khalil Gibran
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash
- Writers Confront the Occupation
- By: Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Gabra Zackman
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza....
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An emotionally and ethically charged book
- By Loni Shelef on 11-18-17
By: Michael Chabon, and others
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Nafsi: Jihad upon My Self
- A Collection of Poems
- By: Kashmir Maryam
- Narrated by: Jane Ghazni
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Nafsi is a collection of poetry and prose, calling you to a spiritual revolution. This compelling work examines the conflict between the soul and the body: its desires, its pain, its love, and its hope....
By: Kashmir Maryam
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Hafiz
- The Voice of God: A Hundred Odes
- By: Hafiz, Khalid Hameed Shaida - translator
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Tender and sincere, Hafiz: The Voice of God, A Hundred Odes is a powerful collection of Hafiz's first one hundred lyrical poems, or ghazals, that bring to fruition love, mysticism, and other early Sufi themes....
By: Hafiz, and others
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- By: Omar Khayyam
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 3 hrs
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In this recording are presented readings of all five editions of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, translated by scholar Edward Fitzgerald, as well as biographical material about Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam and a laudatory poem by Andrew Lang....
By: Omar Khayyam
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The Meursault Investigation
- By: Kamel Daoud, John Cullen - translator
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus' classic novel....
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An enthralling double feature!
- By Kaui on 06-28-16
By: Kamel Daoud, and others
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Like This
- More Poems of Rumi
- By: Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Jalaluddin Rumi, a spiritual mystic of the Islamic world, is recognized as one of the most influential poets in history. His words are charged with an unequalled blend of literary genius and spiritual wisdom. No matter how often we listen to Rumi, each time is always the first time....
By: Rumi, and others
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The Rumi Collection
- An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
- By: Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski - editor
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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The Rumi Collection presents an essential anthology of the works of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet and philosopher Jalâluddin Rumi....
By: Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, and others
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....
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Poetic translation of an epic story
- By K on 07-12-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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A Hundred Sweet Promises
- By: Sepehr Haddad
- Narrated by: Tim Fearon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A family secret revealed 40 years ago by a grandmother to her grandson is now an acclaimed Russian historical fiction novel. A Hundred Sweet Promises is the tale of the author’s grandfather, Nasrosoltan, a famed composer....
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Historical romance
- By AudioBookReviewer on 06-21-21
By: Sepehr Haddad
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From Darkness Into Light
- By: A. Helwa
- Narrated by: A. Helwa
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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In her debut poetry audiobook, the number one international best-selling author of Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam, invites you to step into her beautifully composed world of devotional poetry....
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I find myself constantly coming back
- By Amazon Customer on 10-02-23
By: A. Helwa
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Mind Platter
- By: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence....
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beautiful narration
- By Carlos on 08-10-24
By: Najwa Zebian
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Hafiz: Divan
- By: Gertrude Bell
- Narrated by: David Hunsdale
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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The remarkable Gertrude Bell, one of the great scholars/adventurers of the late 19th and early 20th century, translated the poems of Hafiz of Persia and introduced the English world to one of the great minds of the 15th century....
By: Gertrude Bell
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Motherland: Zamin-e Madaran (Persian Edition)
- By: Shahzoda Samarqandi
- Narrated by: Shahzoda Samarqandi
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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This novel is in Persian language, written by Shahzoda Samarqandi. Book is published by H&S Media and distributed by Amazon....
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The Prophet (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Before he sets sail, a beloved prophet is asked by his followers to impart his truth. In these twenty-eight poetic essays, he offers profound inspiration on such matters of love and friendship, freedom and self-knowledge, joy and sorrow....
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Great book, highly recommended.
- By Moe H. on 08-18-19
By: Kahlil Gibran
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مرداد (The Book of Mirdad)
- By: ميخائيل نعيمه (Mikhail Naima)
- Narrated by: Mohamed Ibrahim
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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يُحكى أنّ نوح، بعد الطوفان، سأل ابنه أن يبني هيكلًا يشبه الفلك، في وسطه مذبح تشتعل فيه نار لا تنطفئ، وأن يجمع فيه تسعة رجال يسمّون "رفاق الفلك"....
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كتاب يكاد يكون مقدس
- By Muhammad Negm on 11-06-19
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and others
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature....
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Lovely, and as sweet as wine
- By Anonymous User on 03-14-21
By: Dick Davis, and others
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It is Gibran's best-known work....
By: Kahlil Gibran
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Layli and Majnun
- By: Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Serena Manteghi, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a 12th-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families....
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Great Book
- By Anthony W. on 10-03-22
By: Nezami Ganjavi, and others
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Hafiz's Little Book of Life
- By: Hafiz, Ari Honarvar - foreword, Erfan Mojib - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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Have you heard the name "Hafiz"?! Here are soaring flights of fancy and solid life lessons, from one of the greatest poets of all time—made new by two award-winning translators. This is the perfect introduction to Hafiz for all lovers of poetry and seekers of love, spirituality, and meaning....
By: Hafiz, and others
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Vis and Ramin
- By: Fakhraddin Gorgani, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah Agliotta, Dick Davis (introduction)
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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Vis and Ramin is one of the world's great love stories. It was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets....
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Oh yes
- By ICS on 07-11-21
By: Fakhraddin Gorgani, and others
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Islamic Poetry - Volume 1 - The Mystics
- By: Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Mitchley Richard, Shyama Perara
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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In this volume we have gathered many of the most celebrated of these ancient and classical verses by poets of the caliber and brilliance of Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz and many others. Their wise words illuminate much of what we search for....
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A good intro to some mystics to check out further
- By Death2urking18 on 10-30-24
By: Rumi, and others