Masnavi, Book Six

This is the first ever verse translation into English of the entirety of Book Six of Rumi'sThe Masnavi. Book Six is the longest of the books, focusing on self-annihilation in God and the oneness experienced at the end of the Sufi path by the realized mystic.

Summary

This is the first ever verse translation into English of the entirety of Book Six of Rumi'sThe Masnavi. Book Six is the longest of the books, focusing on self-annihilation in God and the oneness experienced at the end of the Sufi path by the realized mystic.

Product details

• Authors: Jalal al-Din Rumi
• Assisted by: Jawid Mojaddedi (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9780192874283
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287428-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, RELIGION / Islam / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, RELIGION / Mysticism, Theology, mysticism, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Islamic Theology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis