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The Masnavi, Book One: Bk. 1 by Jalal al-Din Rumi is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and is sometimes called 'the Koran in Persian'. The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes .In order to convey his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new unabridged verse translation of Book One follows the
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- Author
- Jalal al-Din Rumi
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199549917
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Islam, Religion, Poetry
- Rating
- 4.44 / 5 (530 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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