https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/spiritual_verses/ Recent content in Spiritual_verses on George's Blog Hugo en-US Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/spiritual-verses/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:21:13 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/spiritual-verses/ <p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>This book is supposedly the longest single-authored mystical poem in the world. Coming in at a little over twenty-five thousand Persian couplets which are the equivalent of fifty thousand European lines, the Spiritual Verses are twice as long as Dante&rsquo;s Divine Comedy. Rumi, a Sufi mystic from the 13th century, puts together a group of fables that are connected by metaphor and style as opposed to any plot. Many stories turn out to be like a Russian nesting doll, containing many smaller, distantly related stories to further enhance the author&rsquo;s ideas. Rumi, at points, floats above time and place to speak of universal experiences, while at other times he is firmly rooted in his Islamic perspective.</p>