The Mathnawí of Jalálu?ddín Rúmí, Volume V: Persian Text of Books 5 and 6

Volume 5 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus – here reissued with a new foreword by Alan Williams – provides the Persian edition of books V and VI of the Mathnawí.

The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín Rúmí is his greatest work in every sense. As well as being his longest single composition, it is his most mature, as it was his last work, written from 1261 until his death in 1273 CE. It comprises six books, which amount to over 25,600 rhymed couplets i...