Read Online The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform - Rumi | PDF Online

I listened to the unabridged audio version of this title (on 4 CDs, read by Keith Szarabajka, Blackstone Audio, 2018). Stripped of their magnificient poetic forms, most of the translated stories in this book come across as banal and simple-minded. For someone like me, who has read Mowlavi’s telling of the stories, they are eminently recognizable, but those being introduced to Rumi’s musings for the first time (the book’s apparent target audience), the tales are less than impressive. The 105