The Masnavi, Book One,9780192804389

The Masnavi, Book One

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ISBN13: 9780192804389
ISBN10: 0192804383
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Pub. Date: 2004-12-23
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been 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. Drawing from folk tales as well as sacred history, Rumi's poem is often funny as well as spiritually profound. Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation of Book One is consistent with the aims of the original work in presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.

Author Biography


Jawid J. Mojaddedi is Assistant Professor of Religion at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Note on the Translation xxvii
Select Bibliography xxix
A Chronology of Rumi xxxi
THE MASNAVI
Book One
Prose Introduction
3(1)
The Song of the Reed
4(2)
The Healing of the Sick Slave-Girl
6(13)
The Bald Parrot and the Monk
19(4)
The Jewish Vizier who Deceived the Christians into Following him and Destroyed them
23(24)
The Description of Mohammad in the Gospels
47(1)
The Jewish King who Tried to Destroy Christians with his fire
48(9)
The Man who Mentioned Mohammad's Name with a Smirk
52(5)
How a Hare Killed the Lion that had been Tormenting all the other Animals
57(31)
The Man who saw the Angel of Death
61(8)
The Interpretation of the Fly in a Drop of Donkey's Urine
69(7)
Solomon and the Hoopoe
76(10)
Adam's Fall
78(8)
The Greater Jihad
86(2)
Omar and the Emissary from Byzantium
88(9)
Adam's Superiority to Satan
93(2)
'He is with You Wherever You may be'
95(1)
'Let Whoever Wants to Sit with God Sit with the Sufis'
96(1)
The Escape of the Merchant's Parrot
97(22)
'If Mystics Drink Poison it will Become an Antidote'
100(1)
Moses and the Magicians
101(9)
God's Jealousy
110(5)
The Harm in Being Venerated by People
115(2)
'What God Wills Happens'
117(2)
The Old Harpist
119(18)
'The Special Breaths Sent by God'
121(3)
Aisha and the Unseen Rain
124(7)
'Other Skies beyond These'
126(1)
'Take Advantage of the Coolness of the Spring'
127(4)
The Moaning Pillar
131(2)
The Gravel that Affirmed Mohammad's Prophethood
133(4)
The Prayer of the Angels in Favour of Big Spenders
137(2)
The Caliph Who Was More Generous than Hatem Ta'i
139(1)
The Poor Bedouin and his Wife
139(41)
False Sufi Masters
140(2)
Viewing from Limited Perspectives
142(8)
'Women Prevail over Intelligent Men, while Ignorant Men Prevail over them'
150(1)
Pharaoh's Fate
151(2)
'He Has Lost this World and the Hereafter'
153(2)
Saleh and his She-Camel
155(3)
'He lets the Seas meet Each Other with a Gap which They Don't Encroach upon'
158(2)
The Station of 'That God may forgive you your past and future sins'
160(9)
The Mutual Need of Beggars and Donors
169(1)
False Dervishes
169(3)
Lovers of the Superficial
172(1)
'If You Fornicate, Do it with a Free Woman; If You Steal, Steal a Pearl!'
173(1)
The Boatman and the Grammarian
174(6)
The Sufi Guide
180(3)
The Softie from Qazvin who Wanted a Tattoo
183(2)
The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
185(8)
The Man who Learned to Knock on his Beloved's Door and Say 'It is You!'
188(5)
Sufis Serve as Mirrors of the Soul
193(1)
The Gift Brought by Joseph's Visitor
194(4)
The Prophet's Scribe who Became an Apostate
198(12)
Balam and the Damned
202(1)
The Temptation of Harut and Marut
203(7)
The Deaf Man who Visited his Sick Neighbour
206(2)
Satan was the First to Rely on Reasoning
208(2)
The Importance of Hiding your Mystical Station
210(2)
The Painting Competition between the Greeks and the Chinese
212(2)
The Prophet Mohammad and Zayd
214(12)
Loqman's Test to Discover who had Eaten the Fruit
219(7)
Extinguishing Fire in Medina under Omar
226(1)
Why Ali Dropped his Sword in Battle
227(17)
The Man who was Told that he would One Day Kill Ali
234(6)
Adam's Conceit
237(3)
Why the Prophet Conquered Mecca Yet Said, 'The World is a Carcass'
240(4)
Explanatory Notes 244(23)
Glossary of Proper Names 267

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