Jalal Al-Din Rumi

The Masnavi. Book Four

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'Joking is teaching, so take care to listen -Don't look at just the joke's form of expression.To jesters every serious thing's hilarious,While to the wise hilarious jokes are serious'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 Four interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in understanding of God's meaning. It has a special focus on the myst… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Mojaddedi, Jawid (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-108617-5
EAN: 9780191086175
Produktnummer: 24050273
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 914 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 of Encyclopaedia Iranica at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University. He is currently Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. His most recent publications include Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God andEarly Sufi Theories (OUP, 2012) and for the Oxford World's Classics, The Masnavi, Book Three (OUP, 2013).