{"id":26637,"date":"2023-06-04T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2023-06-04T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T11:17:26","slug":"zara-houshmand-moon-and-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/zara-houshmand-moon-and-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara Houshmand, <em>Moon and Sun<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, editor and literary translator Zara Houshmand shares a selection from her recent translations of Rumi in <em>Moon and Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poet Zara Houshmand on &quot;Moon and Sun&quot; in Poetry Markaz.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/833015267?h=3e7e7bb463&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26652\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.amrevanbooks.com\/product\/moon-and-sun-ebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26652\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/https-shop.amrevanbooks.comproductmoon-and-sun-ebook.jpg\" alt=\"Moon and Sun by Rumi trans zara houshmand\" width=\"422\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/https-shop.amrevanbooks.comproductmoon-and-sun-ebook.jpg 422w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/https-shop.amrevanbooks.comproductmoon-and-sun-ebook-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Moon and Sun<\/em> from <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.amrevanbooks.com\/product\/moon-and-sun-ebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amrevan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rubaiyat, or quatrains, in Moon and Sun were composed by Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi, known as Rumi, a 13th century Muslim theologian and Sufi mystic, and one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. They are a selection from almost 2,000 such quatrains that, along with many longer ghazals, comprise the <em>Divan-E-Shams<\/em>. These poems poured out during a period of Rumi&#8217;s life when he was intensely affected by his relationship with his spiritual mentor and soulmate, Shams al-Din Tabrizi.<\/p>\n<p>Legend describes Shams \u2014 whose name means &#8220;sun&#8221; \u2014 as a wandering dervish, unschooled, an ugly man but charismatic. His own words, only recently made accessible in English, present a much subtler picture. He was an accomplished scholar who hid his learning, an iconoclast, and a fearsome enemy of all hypocrisy. He traveled widely in search of great spiritual teachers of his time, but kept his distance from the dervish schools that would normally have accommodated such a traveler. He refused to beg, and instead earned a meager living at temporary jobs as he traveled.<\/p>\n<p>His relationship with Rumi also defied categories, blurring the traditional roles of master and disciple. Rumi held the belief that at any one time, a single saint living in the world serves as an <em>axis mundi<\/em>, a center around which all spiritual energy revolves. He believed that in Shams he had found this saint. 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