{"title":"Books by Jalal al-Din Rumi","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780199549917","title":"The Masnavi, Book Two","description":"'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men,\nSo why insist they mend their rags again?\nGod's lovers stand beyond all faiths, as they\nAre shown by God Himself a higher way.'\n\nBook Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment. In particular it focuses on the struggle against the self, and how to choose the right companions in order to progress along the mystical path. By interweaving amusing stories and profound homilies, Rumi instructs his followers in a style that still speaks directly to us. In this volume, stories such as 'Moses and the Shepherd', 'The Foolhardy Man who Trusted a Bear's Good Intentions' and 'Mo'awiya and Satan' are among the most popular in the entire Masnavi.\n\nThe most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called 'the Qur'an in Persian'. Self-contained, as well as continuing the journey along the spiritual path, Book Two is here translated into rhyming couplets in the style of Jawid Mojaddedi's prize-winning translation of Book One. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order to convey his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. Drawing from folk tales as well as sacred history, Rumi's poem is often funny as well as spiritually profound.\n\nJawid Mojaddedi's sparkling new verse translation of Book One is consistent with the aims of the original work in presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets. \nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201549238450,"sku":"9780199552313","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780199552313.jpg?v=1786013018"},{"product_id":"9780192857071","title":"The Masnavi, Book Five","description":"'If something else can capture your attention\n Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -\nLove is that flame which, once it blazes up,\n Burns everything but the Beloved up.'\n\n\nThis is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, 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 The Masnavi 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225849835893,"sku":"9780192857071","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192857071_1ab141bb-4f50-4566-aa45-4b567e0c541f.jpg?v=1786011171"},{"product_id":"9780226731629","title":"Mystical Poems of Rumi","description":"My verse resembles the bread of Egypt - night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it. Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold. Like a fish it quivered for an instant on dry land, another moment and you see it is cold. Even if you eat it imagining it is fresh, it is necessary to conjure up many images. What you drink is really your own imagination; it is no old tale, my good man.Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), legendary Persian Muslim poet, theologian, and mystic, wrote poems acclaimed through the centuries for their powerful spiritual images and provocative content, which often described Rumi's love for God in romantic or even erotic terms. His vast body of work includes more than three thousand lyrics and odes, many of which came to him while he was in a religiously inspired trance. This volume includes four hundred poems selected by renowned Rumi scholar A. J. Arberry, who provides here one of the most comprehensive and adept English translations of this enigmatic genius.   \"Mystical Poems\" is the definitive resource for anyone seeking an introduction to - or an enriched understanding of - one of the world's greatest poets.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227243983221,"sku":"9780226731629","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226731629_5b38ceaa-221d-4022-980d-e8454ca7caf4.jpg?v=1786012693"},{"product_id":"9781571747006","title":"Rumi, Day by Day","description":"The only Rumi translation designed specifically for daily meditation Here is a companion for life that provides for each day of the year poetry filled with Rumi’s wisdom and spiritual insight. These poems have been selected on the basis of the poignancy of their message and their relevance to modern life.    This is timeless wisdom of age-old sayings, translated for modern readers by a native speaker. This book is not only a guide for meditation but also a light switch that you can turn on to make your daily connection with spirit. Use these words as tools to better your life each day. They are here for you to incorporate into your daily life, to draw continued guidance, inspiration, and spiritual wealth.   You are a mystic pupilcontinue your searchwith unquenchable thirstThe arena of spirituality has no boundsabandon your preconceptionsabout the ultimate state of beingFor you, it’s all in your searching—from the book","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305021059445,"sku":"9781571747006","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781571747006_7aa52ca0-3aea-4fcb-8172-bbfb26892f50.jpg?v=1786023609"},{"product_id":"9780192874283","title":"The Masnavi, Book Six","description":"'Until effaced no one can actually\nEnter the Court of Holy Majesty.\nWhat is the meaning of the heavenly ascension?\nNon-being: the mystics' law school and religion.'\n\nRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and The Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey teachings about divine love and unity to the disciples of the Sufi order that he founded, best known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Six interweaves amusing stories with homilies and lyrical flights. The longest of all the six volumes at nearly 5,000 verses, its themes focus on self-annihilation in God and the oneness experienced at the end of the Sufi path by the realized mystic. Rumi is believed to have completed it shortly before his death on 17 December 1273.\n\nThis is the first ever verse translation into English of the entirety of Book Six of Rumi's Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.\n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around theglobe. 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Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Four interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in understanding of God's meaning. It has a special focus on the mystical knowledge of the spiritual guide, elaborated through stories such as Solomon's freeiration to the Queen of Sheba, and animal fables.This is the first ever verse translation of Book Four of the Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311609196917,"sku":"9780198783435","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198783435_82f98625-5aec-44a0-8267-55b9391f10eb.jpg?v=1786015789"},{"product_id":"9780199652037","title":"The Masnavi, Book Three","description":"'Your soul each moment struggles hard with death -\nThink of your faith as though it's your last breath.\nYour life is like a purse, and night and day\nAre counters of gold coins you've put away'\n\nRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. 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