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The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics)

By Jalal al-Din Rumi

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780192804389, 9781435609419, 0192804383
LCC
PK6481.M8 E5213 2004
Open Library ID
OL3434608M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
851 kB (871416 bytes)
Pages
272\304
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order to convey his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. Drawing from folk tales as well as sacred history, Rumi's poem is often funny as well as spiritually profound. Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation of Book One is consistent with the aims of the original work in presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.

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