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  • Published: 17 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9780140447910
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $34.00
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Spiritual Verses




This poems has been called ' the Qu'ran of the Persian language'

Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.

  • Published: 17 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9780140447910
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $34.00
Categories:

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