Jalal al-Din Rumi

Broschiertes Buch

The Masnavi

Book Two

Übersetzung: Mojaddedi, Jawid

Beschreibung

Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the follower of Sufi enlightenment. It interweaves stories and homilies in order to instruct followers of Rumi, the great thirteenth-century Muslim mystic. Jawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation follows his prize-winning edition of Book One.

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: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780199549917
• ISBN-10: 0199549915
• Artikelnr.: 23578436