The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One

A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes

Jalaloddin Rumi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

600 Seiten

2020
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-145-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Jalaloddin Rumi’s Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or ‘Spiritual Couplets’, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi’s Masnavi had been revered in the Islamic world as its greatest mystical text. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, stories and fables, and deeply versed in spiritual teaching, it takes us on a profound and playful journey of discovery along the path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with the source of all Truth.

In Book 1 of the Masnavi, the first of six volumes, Rumi opens the spiritual path towards higher spiritual understanding. Alan Williams's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference, and with explanatory notes along the way. True to the spirit of Rumi’s poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world’s great literary achievements for a global readership.

Translated with an introduction, notes and analysis by Alan Williams and including the Persian text edited by Mohammad Este'lami.

Autor

Mowlana Jalaloddin Balkhi (1207-1273), known to the West as Rumi is a Persian poet comparable to the greatest poets of Europe. In 1244, Rumi began the composition of a body (divan) of lyric poems (ghazals) totalling 35,000 verses. In the early 1260s he turned to the composition of his most mature and final work, the mystical masterpiece in six volumes of Persian verses known as the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi ‘The Spiritual Couplets’. Alan Williams is Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester and the translator of Spiritual Verses (London, 2006).

Inhalt

Preface
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the Translation
English translation of the Masnavi Book 1



Notes to Rumi’s Preface
Notes to the Masnavi Book 1

Appendix: Analytical Index of the Stories and Discourses of Masnavi Book One
Index
Persian Text of the Masnavi Book 1, Edited by Mohammad Este?lami

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2020
• Übersetzer: Alan Williams
• Zusatzinfo: 4pp colour plates
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 1044 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-78831-145-0 / 1788311450
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78831-145-8 / 9781788311458
• Zustand: Neuware