The Masnavi. Book Four
$35.86
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2017
Summary
‘Joking is teaching, so take care to listen - Don’t look at just the joke’s form of expression. To jesters every serious thing’s hilarious, While to the wise hilarious jokes are serious’
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi’s Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198783435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198783434 |
| Author: | Jalal al-Din Rumi, Dr Jawid Mojaddedi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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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 EarlySufi Theories and The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (2001).
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