Masnavi of Rumi, Book One

A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes

AvJalaloddin Rumi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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 1 of the Masnavi, the first of six volumes, Rumi opens the spiritual path towards higher spiritual understanding. Alan Williams's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference, and with explanatory notes along the way. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-20
Mått:166 x 240 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 060 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:I.B. Tauris
Antal sidor:600
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781788311458
Översättare:Alan Williams

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Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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Mowlana Jalaloddin Balkhi (1207-1273), known to the West as Rumi is a Persian poet comparable to the greatest poets of Europe. In 1244, Rumi began the composition of a body (divan) of lyric poems (ghazals) totalling 35,000 verses. In the early 1260s he turned to the composition of his most mature and final work, the mystical masterpiece in six volumes of Persian verses known as the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi ‘The Spiritual Couplets’.Alan Williams is Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester and the translator of Spiritual Verses (London, 2006).

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‘This new verse translation of the Masnavi, the mystical masterpiece of the greatest and best-loved of Persian poets, Jalaloddin Rumi, is a literary event of the first importance. Alan Williams has made it his principal life’s work to present the profound spirituality of this towering poet of peerless spiritual and psychological insight – a poet for the ages and for all people – in a form that is accessible to readers of today.’

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PrefaceChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingNote on the TranslationEnglish translation of the Masnavi Book 1Notes to Rumi’s PrefaceNotes to the Masnavi Book 1Appendix: Analytical Index of the Stories and Discourses of Masnavi Book OneIndexPersian Text of the Masnavi Book 1, Edited by Mohammad Este?lami