The Mesnevi
Book the First, with the Acts of the Adepts
First written 1258–1273
About this book
Redhouse’s rhymed English version of the first book of Rūmī’s Masnavī, opening with the Song of the Reed, with his translation of Eflākī’s lives of Rūmī and his circle. The reader gives the Song of the Reed and the first tale.
The edition
- Title
- The Mesnevi: Book the First, with the Acts of the Adepts
- Translated by
- James W. Redhouse
- Publisher
- Trübner & Co., London
- Year
- 1881
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