Publication
Imprint: Oxford University Press, 2022. Responsibility: Jalal al-Din Rumi. Translated from the Persian by Jawid Mojaddedi. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxvii, 283 pages ; 20 cm. Features: Includes glossary, notes.
Call number
GT-I-S / Rumi / Masnavi 5
ISBN
019285707X / 9780192857071
CSS Library Notes
Description: Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the Masnavi was designed to convey teachings about divine love and unity to disciples of the Sufi order founded by Runi. Like earlier books, book five interweaves amusiing stories with homilies. There is a concentration of sexually explicit stories in this volume that illustrate concealment of inner corruption.
This is the first translation into English of the entirety of Book Five of The Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets. -- from back cover
FY2023 /
This is the first translation into English of the entirety of Book Five of The Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets. -- from back cover
FY2023 /
Physical description
xxvii, 283 p.; 20 cm
Description
'If something else can capture your attentionThen 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 opus, The 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 theconvention 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.
Language
Original language
Farsi/Persian