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- 2006
- year of publication
- 464
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4044-791-0
- EAN
- 9780140447910
- Publication date
- 2006-09-07
- Book
- Spiritual Verses · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
