The Masnavi (Oxford World's Classics)

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.

Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation of Book One, two, and three is consistent with the aims of the original work in presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.

Author: Rumi

Translator: Jawid Mojaddedi

Binding: Paperback