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The Masnavi: Book Five
The Masnavi: Book Five
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  • First ever unabridged translation of the entirety of Book Five of The Masnavi into English
  • Known for its high amount of sexually explicit content, including stories about unconventional sex
  • Verse translation into heroic couplets of the original Persian poem
  • An extensive introduction, notes and glossary provide essential background information
  • The ideal introduction to Rumi for the non-specialist reader.

      
'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 opusThe 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.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
Chronology
  
Masnavi: Book Five
    

Explanatory Notes
Glossary

About the author: 

Jalal al-Din Rumi
    
Jawid Mojaddedi 
is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. Born in Afghanistan, he was a 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow and a 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Dr Mojaddedi's translation of The Masnavi: Book One (OUP, 2004) was awarded the Lois Roth Prize by the American Institute of Iranian Studies. His previous books include Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (OUP, 2012) and The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (2001).

Product details

ISBN : 9780192857071

Author: 
Rumi, Jalal al-Din; Mojaddedi, Jawid
Pages
400 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 198 mm
Pub date
Nov 2022
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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The Masnavi: Book Five

The Masnavi: Book Five

The Masnavi: Book Five