The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One

Name: The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781788311458
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A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes

By Jalaloddin Rumi

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The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One presents the first volume of Jalaloddin Rumi's 13th-century masterpiece, a profound poetic journey through Sufi mysticism. Through engaging stories, fables, and spiritual teachings, it explores the path of divine love, guiding readers toward union with the ultimate Truth. This authoritative translation by Alan Williams features accessible blank verse alongside the original Persian text and detailed notes, making Rumi's spiritual vision inviting to a global audience.
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This volume is ideal for readers interested in spirituality, poetry, Islamic mysticism, and world literature, as well as scholars and students of Sufi tradition seeking an authoritative and accessible English translation.

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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, 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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Carole Hillenbrand, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, describes this new verse translation as a significant literary event, praising Alan Williams for rendering Rumi's profound spirituality accessible to modern readers. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak commends the work for unveiling Rumi's timeless mystical vision with clarity and grace, highlighting its enduring relevance across millennia.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788311458

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: I.B. Tauris

Illustration: 4pp colour plates

Contributors:

Translated by Alan Williams

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 1060g

Pages: 600

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About the Author

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).