Tales from Rumi: Essential Selections from the Mathnawi

by E.H. Whinfield (Translator)

Overview

The Persian poet Rumi, who wrote in the 13th Century, has become increasingly popular today. This selection comes from his monumental work, The Mathnawi—perhaps the longest mystical poem ever written, containing 24,000 verses in rhyming couplets. Thanks to E.H. Whinfield’s translation and commentary, these tales—filled with Sufi wisdom, insight, and humor—are wonderfully accessible to a wide audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780284538
Publisher:	Watkins Media
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	224 KB

About the Author

Edward Henry Whinfield ( 1836-1922)  was a translator of Persian literature. He wrote the first well-commented English translations of Hafez and Rumi, as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883