The Masnavi. Book Four
$35.73
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2017
Summary
The Masnavi, Book Four: A Mystic’s Journey in Verse
“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, the unparalleled mystic poet of the Persian language, gifts us with his magnum opus, the Masnavi. This book, the fourth in a series of six, is comprised of approximately 26,000 verses designed to illuminate divine love and unity for d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198783435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198783434 |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| 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 |
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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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