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Masnavi i Ma’navi

The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (abridged)

By Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

First written c. 1258–1273

About this book

Whinfield’s abridged English translation of Rūmī’s Masnavī, the long poem of stories, parables and teaching in six books, beginning with the song of the reed. It gives a selection from each book, in prose, with notes.

The edition

Title
Masnavi i Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (abridged)
Translated by
E. H. Whinfield
Publisher
Trübner, London
Year
1887

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Period

Islamic Golden Age750 CE to 1258 CE

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