| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 271 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Rumi; THE MASNAVI: BOOK ONE; Prose Introduction; The Song of the Reed; The Healing of the Sick Slave-Girl; The Bald Parrot and the Monk; The Jewish Vizier who Deceived the Christians into Following him and Destroyed them; The Description of Mohammad in the Gospels; The Jewish King who Tried to Destroy Christians with his fire; How a Hare Killed the Lion that had been Tormenting all the other Animals; The Greater Jihad; Omar and the Emissary from Byzantium; The Escape of the Merchant's Parrot; The Old Harpist |
| Summary |
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and is sometimes 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. Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new unabridged verse translation. of Book One follows the original in presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming coup |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sufi poetry, Persian.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Sufi poetry, Persian
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mojaddedi, J. A. (Jawid Ahmad)
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| ISBN |
9781435609419 |
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1435609417 |
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9780192804389 |
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0192804383 |
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0191516880 |
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9780191516887 |
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