Attar, Sholeh Wolpe

The Invisible Sun (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide for the Soul from Rumi's Master

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mysticsAttarthe twelfth-century Sufi the poet Rumi called his master.

Twelfth-century Persian poet Attar (11451221) was Rumi's teacher and, though his work is beloved around the world, he is mostly unknown to English readers. Translated in simple, elegant language by award-winning poet Sholeh Wolpéone among generations of poets influenced by Attar's poetryThe Invisible Sun is a beautiful treasury of Attar's most prescient poetry, offering comfort and inspiration.

Attar was one of the most important Sufi poets in the East, comparable in stature and influence to John Milton in the West. In Western thought there is a sharp separation between day-to-day human experience and the transcendence of religion and spirituality. But Sufi philosophy teaches that while the soul awaits its release from the confines of the body, it can experience the other world through mystic union achieved by an inward journey to purify the self.

The Invisible Sun widely introduces the work of Attarthe master Rumi called the spirit and himself its shadowto American readers as never before. Profound yet exquisite in its simplicity, bringing comfort and wisdom, Attar's poetry continues to resonate today:

Everything, large and small, honors your existence,

don't look at yourself with contempt.

There is nothing greater than you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063424753
• Artikelnr.: 72264065

Autorenporträt

Attar (also known as Shaikh Farid-Ud-Din, Attar of Nishapur) was born 1145 in Nishsapur, a city in the northeast region of Iran. His name Attar means herbalist and perfume maker and he practiced the profession of pharmacist. Although information about his life and death is opaque and has been mythologized over the intervening centuries, at some point Attar traveled widely and met with many Sufi Masters. Rumi called him the spirit and himself its shadow and wrote: Attar traveled through al the seven cities love/ While I am only at the bend of the first Alley. Attar lived for over seventy years and died a violent death in the massacre inflicted by the Mongols in 1221.