Tales From the Masnavi
Publisher: George Allen Unwin Ltd
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780489102525
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.