Stateside she has taught at Columbia, Brown, and Harvard, where she received a teaching excellence award. She has served as the Whittlesey Chair of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut, an Islamic Law and Civilization Research Fellow at Yale Law School, and an editor for Harvard Law School's SHARIASource. Emily Jane O’Dell is an Associate Professor at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in China. Stateside she has taught at Columbia, Brown, and Harvard, where she receiv Dr. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way.moreĭr. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi’s classic work.Īt the heart of Rumi’s mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 20 copies of The Gift of Rumi, which offers a new reading of Rumi set against a broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism.Īn authentic exploration of the real Rumi As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beaut An authentic exploration of the real RumiĪs one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings.

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