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Masnavi I Ma'navi
US $35.00
Title: Masnavi I Ma'navi
Publisher: Yassavoli Publications
Author: Maulana Jalalu-D-Din Muhamma I Rumi
Publication Date: Second edition 1999
Language: English
167 Pages
Format: Hardbound, 24*34 cm
ISBN: 964-306-030-6
Price: US $35
Masnavi or Masnavi-e Ma'navi is the best known work of Rumi consisting of 24,660 couplets in seven books. Rumi himself defined his work as a work of destruction, destruction of the worldly for the sake of embracing the Divine. He warns the reader in advance to be prepared to let go of everything; The Masnavi is a rich and precious book that will stir the hearts of Rumi devotees and win many new converts.
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, E.H. Whinfield is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is truly remarkable.
In this delightful treasury, Whinfield sparklingly demonstrates once again why his free form interpresentations of Rumi's poetry have been a major impetus for the current Rumi vogue.
Perhaps the world's greatest spiritual poet ? the gold of Rumi pours down through Whinfield's words. The words leap off the page and dance!
Every venture one's life may replete
Mathnavi's purpose is the Great Defeat.
Set fire, burning with cleansing heat,
On the anvil, egos ply and beat.
This book, if you open, read, entreat
Your life, a mendicant's, in the street.
