The Mathnawí, Book I

Name: The Mathnawí, Book I
Author: Jalálu’d-Dín Rúmí

The Prose Translation

Jalálu’d-Dín Rúmí

Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson · 1926

Rumi’s stories of love, longing, faith and the search for God in Nicholson’s closely literal English prose. His wording and verse numbering are retained, with the introduction, postscript and retained English notes from the 1926 volume.

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The same original Book I appears in Redhouse’s separate Mesnevī edition in rhymed verse. This is Nicholson’s prose translation. The Note on the Text explains the treatment of notes concerned only with Persian.