The Masnavi, Book Five
$29.92
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2022
Summary
The Masnavi, Book Five: A Flame of Love
“If something else can capture your attention Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.”
This is the first-ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi’s magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. Prior to this verse translation in heroic couplets, translations were either of selected passages or in lineated prose with passages deeme…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192857071 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019285707X |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Author: | Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. Born in Afghanistan, he was a 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow and a 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Dr Mojaddedi’s translation of The Masnavi: Book One was awarded the Lois Roth Prize by the American Institute of Iranian Studies. His previous books include Beyond Dogma: Rumi’s Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories and The Biographical Tradition in Sufism.
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