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TAGS: Literature, Persian; Mathnavi; Reynold Nicholson; Rumi (Mevlana); Stories; Sufism

Abstract:

Links to the eight-volume collection of Persian text, English translation, and commentary.

Crossreferences:

Quotations from the Mathnáví of Rúmí in the Bahá'í Writings; List of stories in the Masnavi (Wikipedia)

The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí

Rumi (Jalál al-Dín Muḥammad Balkhí)

Reynold A. Nicholson, translator

1925-1940

Persian text

Vol. I (Books I & II), 1925: archive.org/details/TheMathnawiOfRumi

archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.325386

Vol. V (Books V & VI), 1933: books.google.com/books?id=Jw1kAAAAMAAJ

English translation

Vol. II (Books I & II), 1926: archive.org/details/mathnawiofjalalu0002unse (see also alternative scan)
Vol. IV (Books III & IV), 1930: archive.org/details/mathnawiofjalalu0004unse (see also alternative scan)
Vol. VI (Books V & VI), 1934: archive.org/details/mathnawiofjalalu0006unse (see also alternative scan)

Commentary

Vol. VII (Books I & II), 1937: archive.org/details/dli.ernet.243795
Vol. VIII (Books III-VI), 1940: archive.org/details/mathnawinicholsonvol8

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Languages	English, Persian
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