The Masnavi, Book Six
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2025
Summary
‘Until effaced no one can actually Enter the Court of Holy Majesty. What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension? Non-being: the mystics’ law school and religion.’
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 teachings about divine love and unity to the disciples of the Sufi order that he founded, best known today as the Whirling De…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192874283 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192874284 |
| Author: | Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| 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. His 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 SufiTheories and The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (2001).
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