The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Edited from the Oldest Manuscripts. Containing the Text of the First and Second Books. Persian Text

Djalal-ud-Din Rūmi and R A Nicholson:

ISBN 10: 0906094089 / ISBN 13: 9780906094082

Published by Gibb Memorial Trust, 1985

About this Item

Series: Gibbs Memorial New Series. black cloth hardback with gilt lettering to spine, covers slightly dusty, spine square, pages clean and bright, Persian text, added English title page and preliminaries, paged right to left, a firm copy ar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Edited from the Oldest Manuscripts. Containing the Text of the First and Second Books. Persian Text
• Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906094089
• ISBN 13: 9780906094082
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arab World

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Synopsis

The first of three volumes of the English translation of Rumi’s great poem on Muslim mysticism.

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 Mathnawķ (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.