The Masnavi of Rumi : Book 2 : a new English translation with Persian text and explanatory notes / Jalal al-Din Rumi ; [translated by] Alan Williams ; [Persian text edited by Mohammad Este'lami].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, author.

Contributor:

Williams, Alan, 1953- translator.

Istiʻlāmī, Mu%ammad, editor of persian text.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufi poetry.

Sufi poetry, Persian--Translations into English.

Sufi poetry, Persian.

Persian literature.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 479 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

The Masnavi of Rumi, Book 2

The Ending of Self

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : bI.B. Tauris ; Bloomsbury Publishing, [2020]

Language Note:

Persian text with English translation.

Summary:

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. InBook 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.

Contents:

Preface

Chronology

Introduction

Further Reading

Note on the Translation

English translation of the Masnavi Book 2

Rumi's Preface

Notes to the Masnavi Book 2

Appendix: Analytical Index of the Stories and Discourses of Masnavi Book Two

Index

Persian Text of the Masnavi Book 2, Edited by Mohammad Este'lami.

Notes:

Includes Rumi's Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788313148

1788313143

OCLC:

1143660212