Tales From the Masnavi
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: April 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780700702732
Subjects: Islam; Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Indo-Iranian Literature; Fiction - General; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Religion; Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: THE Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets divided by its author into six books, and called by the poet Jami 'the Koran in the Persian tongue,' by common consent ranks among the world's greatest masterpieces of religious literature.