The Mathnawi of Jalalu'din Rumi: Volume II (English Translation) - Hardcover

Jalalu'ddin Rumi; Nicholson, Reynold A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0906094089 ISBN 13: 9780906094082

Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust, 1982

Synopsis

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi, is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya. It remains the standard text and is provided with diacritical marks to assist the student. The prose translation, similarly, is intended to be an exact and faithful guide to the Persian. The three volumes of English translation can either be bought as a set, or individually; together they comprise a complete translation. Volume 2 comprises a translation of Books I and II.

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About the Author

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1868–1945) was one of the foremost European scholars of Islamic mysticism. His pioneering translations and editions of major Sufi texts―including Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz (1898), The Mystics of Islam (1914), and the monumental eight-volume edition and translation of Rumi’s Mathnawí (1925–1940)―remain foundational works in the field. He also authored the influential Literary History of the Arabs (1907) and several studies on Islamic poetry and personality in Sufism. Nicholson's literary sensitivity and rigorous scholarship transformed Western understanding of Sufi thought and literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906094089
• ISBN 13: 9780906094082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420