Quarreling with God: Mystic Rebel Poems of the Dervishes of Turkey

by Jennifer Ferraro

This collection presents, for the first time in English, a compilation of seven centuries of the mystic hymns of Turkey's rebellious Sufi poets -- the popular folk counterparts to Rumi whose poems are characterized by a passionate and unorthodox commitment to Truth. At the time Rumi was writing in ancient Anatolia, many other great mystics in the region were also composing wild, ecstatic, and controversial poems that were circulated among the people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883991684
• ISBN13: 9781883991685
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: White Cloud Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"