The Masnavi.Vol.3 (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 6: Oxford World's Classics

Dschalaloddin Rumi

 
9780199652037: The Masnavi.Vol.3 (Oxford World's Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199652031 ISBN 13: 9780199652037
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

'Your soul each moment struggles hard with death -
Think of your faith as though it's your last breath.
Your life is like a purse, and night and day
Are counters of gold coins you've put away'

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Three interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in mystical knowledge. It has a special focus on epistemology, illustrated with narratives that involve the consumption of food.

This is the first ever verse translation of Book Three of the Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.

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Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jawid Mojaddedi is a native of Afghanistan, and read Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester. He has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universities of Manchester and Exeter, and served as an editor ofEncyclopaedia Iranica at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University. His most recent publication isBeyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (OUP, 2012). Mr. Mojaddedi was also made a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow for 2014-2015.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199652031
ISBN 13 
9780199652037
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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