The Masnavi, Book One
$30.12
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2008
Summary
‘The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic’s fate - Love’s nature only love can demonstrate.’
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199552313 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199552312 |
| Author: | Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
Critics Review
“Mojaddedi’s is the most faithful verse translation now available… the reader without Persian comes as close as possible to the original.“PN Review (May -June 2006)
`‘Mojaddedi’s is the most faithful verse translation now available… the reader without Persian comes as close as possible to the original.“PN Review (May -June 2006)
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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