Rumi's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi, Book One

Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman

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9781438427966

A collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawi presents itself as spontaneous and unplanned. An explanation of the work in English, the authors bring out the ornate and sophisticated structure of the Mathnawi.