Sources
While writing this novel I benefited greatly from my readings of the Mathnawi by R. A. Nicholson and
The Autobiography of Shams-ı Tabrizi
by William Chittick. I am indebted to the works of William Chittick, Coleman Barks, İdris Shah, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Refik Algan, Franklin D. Lewis, and Annemarie Schimmel.
The poems by Rumi were from the following sources:
William Chittick,
The Sufi Path of Love
, Albany: State University of New York, 1983
Coleman Barks,
A Year with Rumi
, New York: Harper Collins, 2006, and The Essential Rumi, 1995
Kabir Helminski,
The Rumi Collection
, Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2005
Poems by Omar Khayyám from Richard Le Gallienne’s translation as found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyám
Of the two translations of the verse Nisa, the first is by M. H. Shakir (The Qur’an, translated by M. H. Shakir, 1993), the second is by Ahmed Ali (
Al-Qur’an: A Contemporary Translation, Princeton
, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001)