Jalal al-Din Rumi

The Masnavi, Book Three

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'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 dayAre 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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mojaddedi, Jawid (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-164199-2
EAN: 9780191641992
Produktnummer: 16978140
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'156 KB

Über den Autor

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 o fEncyclopaedia Iranica at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University. His most recent publication is Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (OUP, 2012). Mr. Mojaddedi was also madea National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow for 2014-2015.