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The Vision of Rumi: Revealing the Masnavi, Persia's Great Masterpiece
By (author) Alan Williams
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""The Masnavi"" is the six-volume masterpiece created by one of the world's greatest poetic geniuses, Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). It is perhaps the single most influential piece of mystical writing ever conceived. Though the Persian poet Rumi is now hugely popular in the West, his most famous oeuvre still remains enigmatic. Alan Williams here offers a novel approach to reading and understanding this great jewel of world literature. Recognizing that all medieval and modern attempts to 'explain' the ""Masnavi"" have been based on an examination of its teachings, Williams shows that those who have tried to find the key to its message in its separate themes have had little success. He argues that the work can only be fully comprehended if the 'meaning' of the text is understood to lie in the poetry itself, in the language. The closely woven tapestry cannot be unwoven into prosaic explanation without losing the whole. The visionary poetic metaphors and devices are not the container for the teachings: they are the teachings. This revelatory unlocking enables Rumi's voice and purpose to become fully transparent.
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published date | 25 Jun 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 224
Dimensions | 228 x 155 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7807-6625-6
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BISAC | religion / islam / general
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