The Mathnawi of Jalalu?ddin Rumi
Volume 6, English Text
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2013
538 pages
978-1-909724-08-2 (ISBN)
Description
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya. It remains the standard text and is provided with diacritical marks to assist the student. The prose translation, similarly, is intended to be an exact and faithful guide to the Persian. The three volumes of English translation can either be bought as a set, or individually; together they comprise a complete translation. Volume 6 comprises a translation of Books V and VI.
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English
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Havertown
United Kingdom
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Edinburgh University Press
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Professional and scholarly
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27,22 MB
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978-1-909724-08-2 (9781909724082)
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Book V
- Preface (in prose)
- Proem
- Parable of the Four Birds
- Description of the Duck
- The Prophet and the Greedy Infidel
- The Light which is the Food of the Spirit
- Description of the Peacock
- Diversity of Intelligences
- The Arab of the Desert and his Dog
- The Sage and the Peacock
- No monkery in Islam
- Description of the Crow
- The Gazelle in the Donkey-stable
- Muhammad Khwárizmsháh and the people of Sabzawár
- Description of the Cock
- The Lowest of the Low
- The two Worlds
- The value of Works
- And He is with you
- The Man who claimed to be a Prophet
- The Devoted Lover
- The Disciple who imitated the Shaykh
- The Maidservant and the Ass
- Parable of the Parrot which is taught to speak by seeing its image in a mirror
- The Puppies that barked before they were born
- The People of Zarwán
- The Creation of Adam
- The illusion of causes
- Death and Resurrection
- The infinite mercy of God
- The Story of Ayáz
- Laylá and Majnún
- The Ascetic and his jealous Wife
- The repentance of Nasúh
- The Fox and the Ass
- The Ass that envied the Arab horses
- The Ascetic who made trial of his trust in God
- Parable of the Camel
- The effeminate Youth
- The Man who was afraid of being taken for an Ass
- Shaykh Muhammad Sar-razí of Ghazna
- The Disciple in dread of hunger
- The Cow in the green Island
- The Christian ascetic who went about with a lamp in the day-time
- Debate between a Moslem and a Magian on the subject of free-will
- The Dervish who reproached God
- The beauty of Laylá
- A story of Júhí
- The Infidel and Báyazíd
- The Muezzin with the harsh voice
- The Cat and the Meat
- The Amír and the Ascetic
- Ziyá-yi Dalq and his Brother
- Dalqak's game of Chess with the Sháh of Tirmid
- The Prophet on Mount Hirá
- The World that is living, speaking, and hearing
- The Guest who took offence and departed
- A Father's advice to his married Daughter
- The cowardly Súfí
- 'Iyádí and the Greater Warfare
- The Man who tormented his Carnal Soul
- The Caliph and the Captain
- The Magicians of Pharaoh
- Book VI
- Preface (in prose)
- Proem
- The Bird on the City-wall
- The temptation of Free-will
- The Hindú Slave and his Master's daughter
- The Thief who put out the light
- The Story of Ayáz (continued)
- The Fowler and the Bird
- The Man whose Ram was stolen
- The Watchman who cried out after the Robbers had gone
- The Lover who fell asleep
- The Turkish Amír and the Minstrel
- 'Á'isha and the Blind Man
- Die before ye die
- A Poet's rebuke to the Shí'ites of Aleppo
- Parable of the Ant
- The Man who gave the drum-call for breakfast at midnight
- The Story of Bilál
- The Story of Hilál
- The Horse that went backward
- Mohammed and Jesus
- The ugly old Hag who wanted a Husband
- The Dervish and the Man of Gílán
- The Beggar and the House where nothing could be got
- The Man who was desperately ill, and the Story of the Súfí and the Cadi
- Sultan Mahmúd and the Hindú Boy
- The Turk and the Tailor
- The Fakir and the Hidden Treasure
- Shaykh Abu 'l-Hasan Kharraqání and his Disciple
- Man the vicegerent of God
- The Three Travellers and the sweetmeat
- The Camel, the Ox, and the Ram
- Dalqak and the King of Tirmid
- The Mouse and the Frog
- Sultan Mahmúd and the Night-thieves
- The Sea-cow and the Pearl
- 'Abdu 'l-Ghawth and the Peris
- The insolvent Dervish and the Police Inspector of Tabríz
- Ja'far-i Tayyár's irresistible attack on a fortress
- Parable of the man who sees double
- The Khwárizmsháh and the beautiful Horse
- The imprisonment of Joseph
- The Three Princes who fell in love with the portrait of the Princess of China
- The Sadr-i Jahán of Bukhárá and the Jurist
- Story of two Brothers
- The King who forced a learned Doctor to drink wine with him
- Imra'u 'l-Qays and the King of Tabúk
- The Man who dreamed of a Hidden Treasure
- The Cadi and the Wife of Júhí
- The Prophet and 'Alí
- Hell and the true Believer
- The Story of Nimrod
- The miracles of Shaybán Rá'í
- The Man who left his property to the laziest of his three Sons
- Parable of the Child and the Bogle
