Tales from the Land of the Sufis

I enjoy each and every line. The translation was great as I already read the original and I know how it's difficult to translate Rumi's poem.

This is a brief introduction to some great classical Persian Sufi stories. Without a doubt, this is one of my most favorite books and I would recommend it.

When I picked up this book, I assumed it would simply be texts attributed to Sufi masters. The authors inserted some of their own biographical materials about those Sufi masters and some historical background to Sufism and their own beliefs. I thought these insertions were too much in the first third of the book, but overall they struck a good balance.Keep in mind that the narrations in this book are focused on the Sufi masters from Persia or whose Persian books survived. It is not a comprehensive list of all of Sufi masters.I enjoyed the tales very much. Would that I abandon my attachments to this impermanent world so that I could better understand them!

A beautiful and deeply spiritual book with many stories from Sufi poets and masters of the path.I have read and reread this book many times.