The Masnavi, Book Five

‘If something else can capture your attention
Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion –
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.’

This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi’s magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. Prior to this verse translation in heroic couplets, translations were either of selected passages or in lineated prose with passages deemed too salacious rendered into Latin, as was the convention in Britain of the early twentieth century. This fifth book of Rumi’s The Masnavi is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total and uncompromising way.

Author: Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/03/2022
Series: Oxford World’s Classics
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.13w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780192857071
Language: English