Mathnavi - Collection of Poems by Mevlana Rumi (Vol. 1 of 6)

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The Mathnawi or Masnavi is the great masterpiece of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, who lived in the 13th century. The title Masnavi-I Manavi means "Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning."

Comprising six books of poems that amount to more than 50,000 lines, it pursues its way through 424 stories that illustrate mans predicament in his search for God.

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Few words about Mevlana Rumi:
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He was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic.
Jalaluddin Rumi was born in Balkh, Mazar-i Sharif (present-day Afghanistan) on September 30, 1207CE, to a family of well-known mystics and scholars. His full name was Jalaluddin Mohammed but he became known as Rumi - meaning from Rome - because his father Baha-uddin Balad later moved to Anatolia, once the base of the eastern Roman empire, in the wake of the Mongol invasion in 1219.

Maulana Rumis first teacher was his father, but he was also greatly impressed by Shams Tabrizi, whose shrine is close to the Maulanas in Konya.
The Maulana travelled far and wide, including to Aleppo and Damascus, to study but Konya remained his permanent abode, and it was there that he died on December 17, 1273.