This landmark booklet unearths the constitution of Rumī’s thirteenth-century vintage, the Mathnawī. A cherished selection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses filled with anecdotes and parables on what seem to be loosely hooked up subject matters, the Mathnawī provides itself as spontaneous and unplanned. even if, as Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman display, the paintings has a worldly layout that intentionally hides the religious in order that readers, as seekers, need to locate it for themselves—it is not just approximately non secular education, it truly is religious education. in addition to a whole synoptic interpreting of the complete of booklet One, the authors supply fabric on Rumī’s lifestyles, his non secular place, and his literary antecedents. Safavi and Weightman have supplied readers, scholars, and students with a helpful source: the consultant that they needed they'd had ahead of their very own studying of this nice religious classic.

“This is most likely the simplest clarification of the importance of the total paintings ever written, definitely so in English. The authors carry out dimensions of the ornate and complex constitution of the Mathnawī, of which different authors have had at most sensible basically inklings.” — William C. Chittick, writer of The Sufi Doctrine of Rumī

Seyed Ghahreman Safavi is examine affiliate of paintings on the university of Oriental and African reports, the collage of London, and Director of the London Academy of Iranian stories. he's the writer of The constitution of Rumī’s Mathnawī: New Interpretation of the Mathnawī as a publication for romance and Peace.

Simon Weightman is Former Head of the dept of the examine of Religions on the institution of Oriental and African stories, the college of London. he's the coauthor (with Rupert Snell) of Hindi.