The Masnavi, book one /
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| Author / Creator: | Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. |
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| Uniform title: | Mas̲navī. Book 1. Selections. English |
| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 271 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178167 |
| Summary: | 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 his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. Drawing from folk tales as well as sacred history, Rumi's poem is often funny as well as spiritually profound. <br> Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation of Book One is consistent with the aims of the original work in presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 271 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx). |
| ISBN: | 9781435609419 1435609417 9780192804389 0192804383 0191516880 9780191516887 |