Tales from Rumi
Essential Selections from the Mathnawi
Watkins Publishing
Published on 1. January 2012
244 pages
978-1-78028-453-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Persian poet Rumi, who wrote in the 13th Century, has become increasingly popular today. This selection comes from his monumental work, The Mathnawi-perhaps the longest mystical poem ever written, containing 24,000 verses in rhyming couplets. Thanks to E.H. Whinfield's translation and commentary, these tales-filled with Sufi wisdom, insight, and humor-are wonderfully accessible to a wide audience.
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Edward Henry Whinfield ( 1836-1922) was a translator of Persian literature. He wrote the first well-commented English translations of Hafez and Rumi, as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction Alan Jacobs
- Book I
- Story 1: The Prince and the Handmaid
- 5. The Lion and the Beasts
- 6. Omar and the Ambassador
- 8. The Harper
- 10. The Man Who was Tattooed
- Book II
- Story 2: The Pauper and the Prisoners
- 4. The Falcon and the Owls
- 8. The Man and his Pet Bear
- 10. Báyazíd and the Saint
- Book III
- Story 1: The Travellers who Ate the Elephant
- 3. The Jackal Who Pretended to be a Peacock
- 5. The Elephant in a Dark Room
- 10. The Old Man and his Sons
- 11. Bahlol and the Darvesh
- 14. The Miracles of the Prophet
- Book IV
- Story 1: The Lover and his Mistress
- 3. The Youth who Complained of his Food
- Book V
- Story 1: The Prophet and his Infidel Guest
- 5. The Man who Claimed to be a Prophet
- 9. The Repentance of Nasúh
- 11. The Musulman and the Magian
- 12. The Devotee who Broke the Noble's Wine-Jar
- Book VI
- Prologue, First two poems
- Story 3: The Turkish Amir and the Minstrel
- 4. The Purchase of Bilal
- 8. The Pensioner of the Prefect Tabriz
- Copyright
