{"product_id":"the-masnavi-book-five-paperback","title":"The Masnavi, Book Five - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJalal Al-Din Rumi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJawid Mojaddedi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'If something else can capture your attention\u003cbr\u003e Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -\u003cbr\u003eLove is that flame which, once it blazes up, \u003cbr\u003e Burns everything but the Beloved up.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's \u003cem\u003emagnum opus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Masnavi\u003c\/em\u003e, into English. Prior to this verse translation in heroic couplets, translations were either of selected passages or in lineated prose with passages deemed too salacious rendered into Latin, as was the convention in Britain of the early twentieth century. This fifth book of Rumi's \u003cem\u003eThe Masnavi\u003c\/em\u003e is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total and uncompromising way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJalal al-Din Rumi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. Born in Afghanistan, he was a 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow and a 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Dr Mojaddedi's translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Masnavi\u003c\/em\u003e: Book One (OUP, 2004) was awarded the Lois Roth Prize by the American Institute of Iranian Studies. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eBeyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2012) and \u003cem\u003eThe Biographical Tradition in Sufism\u003c\/em\u003e (2001).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 7.73 x 5.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765831074080,"sku":"9780192857071","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0bf764edf695edbb4ed5bb870098688a.webp?v=1780281123","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-masnavi-book-five-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}