Masnavi of Rumi, Book Two

Jalaloddin Rumi''s Masnavi-ye Ma''navi, or ''Spiritual Couplets'', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi''s Masnavi had been revered in the Islamic world as its greatest mystical text. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, stories and fables, and...