The Masnavi Book 3

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi, written in six books, is his masterpiece. It conveys a message of divine love in entertaining stories and homilies. The focus of Book Three is on epistemology; this is the first ever verse translation, and the first translation of any kind for over 80 years. Zusammenfassung Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi, written in six books, is his masterpiece. It conveys a message of divine love in entertaining stories and homilies. The focus of Book Three is on epistemology; this is the first ever verse translation, and the first translation of any kind for over 80 years.

Product details

• Authors: Dschalaloddin Rumi, Jalal al-Din Rumi
• Assisted by: Jawid Mojaddedi (Translation), Jawid (Professor of Islamic Studies Mojaddedi (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199652037
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965203-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; POETRY / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Mysticism, mysticism, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Poetry by individual poets, Middle Eastern history, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis, Persian (Farsi), Poetry / poems by individual poets