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"Odbljesak Mevlaninih promišljanja" u Alhemičaru Paola Koelja
A Reflection of Jalal din Rumi’s thoughts in Paul Coelho’s Alchemist

Author(s): Mubina Moker
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu

Summary/Abstract: A quest of "treasure" from the Lord's treasury hidden in the most delica-te depths of human being is a leitmotif we will often come across in the works by Persian sufi poets. A story from Mesnevi, a widely known sufi poetic work by Jalal Ad-Din Rumi treating the said motif, served as a framework for Paul Coelho's novel "Alchemist" earning him worldwide fame. The text aspires to encourage the reader to try to discover, through his mystic experience of encounter with his own light self (man-e ruhanT), the meaning of the "spiritual alchemy" which is, indeed, the alchemy of eternal bliss.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 113-122
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian