The Masnavi, Book Five

Author: Jalal al-Din Rumi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192671219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.' This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. Prior to this verse translation in heroic couplets, translations were either of selected passages or in lineated prose with passages deemed too salacious rendered into Latin, as was the convention in Britain of the early twentieth century. This fifth book of Rumi's The Masnavi is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total and uncompromising way.

The Masnavi of Rumi, Book Two

Author: Jalaloddin Rumi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786726092
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's Masnavi had been revered in the Islamic world as its greatest mystical text. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, stories and fables, and deeply versed in spiritual teaching, it takes us on a profound and playful journey of discovery along the path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with the source of all Truth. In Book Two of the Masnavi, the second of six volumes, we travel with Rumi toward an understanding of the deeper truth and reality, beyond the limits of the self. Alan Williams's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference. True to the spirit of Rumi's poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world's great literary achievements for a global readership. Translated with an introduction, notes and analysis by Alan Williams and including the Persian text edited by Mohammad Este'lami.

Masnavi i Ma'navi

Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description

Spiritual Verses

Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141936991
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.

The Masnavi, Book One

Author: Jalal al-Din Rumi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0192804383
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Beyond Dogma

Author: Jawid Mojaddedi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195369238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Beyond Dogma examines Rumi's central teaching about friendship with God (walaya) in light of earlier Sufi discourse on this topic and its reception by Muslim theologians and jurists. It provides a nuanced and historically contextualized appreciation of Rumi's place in Islam.

Signs of the Unseen

Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Perhaps no one has combined the qualities of spiritual master and literary genius to a greater extent than Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). It is safe to say that no book within the realm of Islam, with the exception of the Qur'an, has been so venerated as Rumi's Mathnawi. Here now is a translation of is Fihi ma Fihi, a collection of lectures, discourses, conversations, and comments on various and sundry topics. A sensitive and scholarly translation enriches this ancient wisdom.

The Mathnawi Maˈnavi of Rumi, Book-5

Author: Jalal Al-din Rumi
Publisher: www.persianbell.com
ISBN: 1636209076
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
One of the Greatest Persian Classic Book عارفان که جام حق نوشیده‌اند رازها دانسته و پوشیده‌اند هر کرا اسرار کار آموختند مهر کردند و دهانش دوختند Gnostics, who have drunk of the cup of God have known the mysteries and kept them hidden. Whosoever has been taught the mysteries of the (Divine) action his lips are sealed and closed. Mathnawi Maˈnavi (also known as Masnavi or “Spiritual Couplets of Maulana”) is one of the most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature. The Masnavi, written by Jalal al-Din Muhammad, Rumi is a series of six books of poetry containing more than 25,000 verses. This spiritual writing teaches Sufis how to reach their goal of being in true love with God. Rumi is one of the best Persian poets and the Mathnawi is his masterpiece. Rumi used Persian and Arabic in his poetry. By the end of the 20th century, Rumi’s popularity had become a global phenomenon, with his poetry achieving a wide circulation in the United States and western Europe. His poems have been translated into many different languages including Turkish, Urdu, French, Turkmen, Spanish, English, Arabic, German, Italian, Albanian, Swedish, etc. Reynold Alleyne Nicholson's translation of Mathnawi is based on the oldest known manuscripts. The prose translation, similarly, is intended to be an exact and faithful guide to the Persian. In Book, the fifth of six volumes, it is the work of an eternal mystic who has seen the truth, and the ultimate certainty is Love and the Beloved. He speaks to seekers of every era. We are very happy that the Mathnawi Maˈnavi of Rumi has found its way to you! Published By: Persian Learning Center www.persianbell.com

The Book of Marvels and Travels

Author: Sir John Mandeville
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199600600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.

Tales from the Masnavi

Author: A. J Arberry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136776575
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks among the world's greatest masterpieces of religious literature. The material which makes up the Masnavi is divisible into two different categories: theoretical discussion of the principal themes of Sufi mystical life and doctrine, and stories of fables intended to illustrarte those themes as they arise. This selection of tales is the most accessible introduction to this giant epic for the non-perisan reader.