The Masnavi, Book Five

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Jalal al-Din Rumi Jawid Mojaddedi (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, Rutgers University)

The Masnavi, Book Five

Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, Rutgers University)

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English

Worlds Classics
01 December 2022

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Islam; Sufism & Islamic mysticism

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'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 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 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.

By: Jalal al-Din Rumi
Edited and translated by: Jawid Mojaddedi (Professor of Religion Professor of Religion Rutgers University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9780192857071
ISBN 10: 019285707X
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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).