Jalal al-Din Rumi

Broschiertes Buch

The Masnavi, Book Five

Beschreibung

The first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. 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.

Autor

Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. Born in Afghanistan, he was a 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow and a 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Dr Mojaddedi's translation of The Masnavi: Book One (OUP, 2004) was awarded the Lois Roth Prize by the American Institute of Iranian Studies. His previous books include Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (OUP, 2012) and The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (2001).

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780192857071
• ISBN-10: 019285707X
• Artikelnr.: 63658359