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Subject(s)

• Sufi poetry, Persian [Browse]

Translator

• Mojaddedi, Jawid [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Summary note

Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the follower of Sufi enlightenment. It interweaves stories and homilies in order to instruct followers of Rumi, the great thirteenth-century Muslim mystic. Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation follows his prize-winning edition of Book One. - ;'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men,. So why insist they mend their rags again?. God's lovers stand beyond all faiths, as they. Are shown by God Himself a higher way.'. Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenm

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Rumi; THE MASNAVI: BOOK TWO

ISBN

• 1-281-16098-9
• 9786611160982
• 0-19-152650-9
• 1-4356-0986-7

OCLC

437096342

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