Yahia Lababidi on Nostr: npub12tg44…f3pk6 My pleasure, David, and happy discoveries . 😇 I own Barks ...
npub12tg44utszglx7t3hr037ysuy7vr4j7pxvxynmecnqr0z5qwh8fqs6f3pk6 (npub12tg…3pk6) My pleasure, David, and happy discoveries . 😇
I own Barks translations & they’re useful, up to a point. I don’t doubt, for example his affinity with Rumi. But, as someone who does not speak Persian & who deliberately takes Islam out of Rumi’s Sufism, I’m also wary of him…
Perhaps, this article will interest you:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi
I own Barks translations & they’re useful, up to a point. I don’t doubt, for example his affinity with Rumi. But, as someone who does not speak Persian & who deliberately takes Islam out of Rumi’s Sufism, I’m also wary of him…
Perhaps, this article will interest you:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi