Rumi's Fables

Title

en_US Rumi's Fables

Description

en_US Translated by Negar Niazi; Edited by John G. Oster

Creator

Negar Niazi; John G. Oster See all items with this value

Contributor

Colley, Charles

Illuminated byi Charles Colley

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:15Z

en_US 2015-06

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 2012

Abstract

en_US At last I have a chance to read some of Rumi's tales. There are forty-three numbered tales here. Each receives a page of text on the right and a full-page acrylic-on-canvas painting on the left. There is a T of C at the beginning of this large-format paperback. I have read the first ten and enjoyed them. Several are known fables, like "The Farm Animals and the Lion" (3). This is the "Kalilah and Dimnah" story of regulated sacrifice. "The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox" is the story in which the wolf's fate teaches the fox to divide lion's spoils appropriately (11). Some stories have surprising turns. In the first, a man with more than medical insight understands why the beautiful girl is ill (1). The prince had fallen in love with this girl, but did not know that she was in love with a young man from her village. The prince had taken her from him. He returns the two to each other, but soon the young man from the village dies, and the prince and girl get together despite it all! A thief steals a snake from its owner but is fatally bitten by the snake (13). The owner finds the dead thief and thereby discovers that his snake was poisonous. Lucky for him! In maybe the cleverest of this set, a parrot-owner will travel to India and asks his whole household what souvenir each wants (5). His pet parrot asks him to tell the parrots at the Taj Mahal that he is imprisoned in a cage. The traveler does that, and one of the parrots there immediately falls to the ground, apparently dead. The traveler comes home and tells the parrot what happened. The pet parrot immediately falls over, apparently dead. Soon enough the owner takes him out of his cage -- and the smart parrot flies away!

Identifier

en_US 10627 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85412

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

en_US North Charleston, SC

Subject

en_US PK6482.J353 2012 See all items with this value

Rumi See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole