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The Masnavi. Book 2 /
The most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called "the Qur'an in Persian". Book Two 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Persian |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Oxford world's classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Note on the translation
- Selected bibliography
- A chronology of Rumi
- THE MASNAVI, BOOK 2. Prose introduction
- Exordium
- Identifying the new moon too soon
- God mercifully ignores some prayers
- Jesus's companion's foolish request
- Blindly expecting a lion to be an ox
- The Sufis chanted, 'The ass has gone! The ass has gone!'
- The devilish bankrupt and the dull-witted Kurd
- The folly of thinking, 'If only ... '
- To murder the mother of all problems
- A king tests two contrasting slaves
- Envy of a king's favourite slave
- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- The philosopher's rejection of a Qur'anic verse
- Moses and the shepherd
- Moses asks God why oppressors seem to win
- The cure for a man who has swallowed a snake
- The foolhardy man who trusted a bear's good intentions
- The Prophet visits his sick companion
- Satan wakes up Mo'aviya so he can join the congregation for the dawn prayer
- Unhelpful advice about a burglar
- The hypocrites who built the Mosque of Opposition to the Prophet
- The four Indians who spoilt their own prayers by finding fault with each other
- How Ghuzz Turks make an example out of their victims
- Self-conceit leads to ingratitude for prophets and saints
- The physician's diagnosis for an old man
- Johi's interpretation of a child's lament
- The boy who was terrified of what a huge man wanted to do to him
- The archer and the mounted warrior
- The Bedouin and the philosopher
- The miracles of Ebrahim-e Adham by the ocean
- Aisha complains to the Prophet about his performing the prayer in dirty places
- The camel and the mouse
- The miracles of the dervish accused of stealing
- Some Sufis complain to their master about a fellow Sufi talking too much
- John the Baptist bows to Jesus in Mary's womb
- The folly of literalism
- The tree which gives eternal life
- Four men fight because they use different words for 'grapes'
- Ducklings nurtured by a domestic bird
- Reactions to the miracles of an ascetic in the desert
- Explanatory notes
- Glossary.