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.

Spiritual Verses

Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141936991
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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 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

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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The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

Author: Rumi
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
ISBN: 076036835X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumi's spiritual poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for a stronger spiritual core.

The Donkey's Gone!

Author: Omid Arabian
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1644210916
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A Rumi story turned into a fun, illustrated allegory for kids. The 13th century Sufi mystic, Islamic scholar, Persian poet and storyteller Rumi remains a towering cultural force, and possibly the most widely read poet in the world--especially on the subject of love. Here a simple tale about a donkey keeper staying at an inn becomes a parable for life lessons of joy and sorrow that will be universally understood by children in this adaptation by the Rumi scholar Omid Arabian, illustrated with great humor and authenticity by the Iranian-born artist Shilla Shakoori. The Donkey's Gone is based on a story from The Masnavi, which is an epic compilation of Rumi's wisdom in the form of poems and short stories. Adapted for children, it retains Rumi's wit and insight while also relating a cautionary tale about what we stand to lose when we imitate others and conform.

The Essential Rumi - reissue

Author: Coleman Barks
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062509586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
From the premier interpreter of Rumi comes the first definitive one-volume collection of the enduringly popular spiritual poetry by the extraordinary thirteenth-century Sufi mystic.

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.

Classical Islam

Author: Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies Norman Calder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134551711
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This sourcebook presents more than fifty new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists it illustrates the growth of Islamic thought from its seventh-century origins to the end of the medieval period.