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Book/Printed Material The Spiritual Couplets.

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Title

  • The Spiritual Couplets.

Summary

  • The most significant contribution of Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (popularly known in Persian as Mawlānā, and in English as Rumi, 1207--73), the renowned poet and mystic of Iran, to Persian literature may be his poetry, and especially his famous Masnavi (The spiritual couplets). This work, which is said to be the most extensive verse exposition of mysticism in any language, discusses and offers solutions to many complicated problems in metaphysics, religion, ethics, mysticism, and other fields. Masnavi highlights the various hidden aspects of Sufism and their relationship to the worldly life. To accomplish his purposes, Rumi draws on a variety of subjects and derives numerous examples from everyday life. His main subject is the relationship between man and God on the one hand, and between man and man, on the other. Rumi apparently believed in some form of Pantheism and portrayed the various stages of man's evolution in his journey towards the Ultimate. Rumi's cultural impact has been very profound throughout Middle East, in the Islamic world and, recently, in the Western world. The present book is a facsimile printing of a manuscript of Masnavi by the famous 19th-century calligrapher Towhid Vesal. It contains beautiful illuminations and elegant headpieces. The original manuscript is preserved in the manuscript collections of the National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Names

  • Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 Author.
  • Vesal, Towhid Calligrapher.

Created / Published

  • Tehran : Academy of Arts and Society of Calligraphers, 2006.

Headings

  • -  1207 to 1273
  • -  Calligraphy, Persian
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Persian poetry
  • -  Poetry
  • -  Sufi poetry
  • -  Sufism

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 360 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  • -  Content in Persian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666215

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, Author, and Towhid Calligrapher Vesal. The Spiritual Couplets. Tehran: Academy of Arts and Society of Calligraphers, 2006. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666215/.

APA citation style:

Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī, M. & Vesal, T. C. (2006) The Spiritual Couplets. Tehran: Academy of Arts and Society of Calligraphers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666215/.

MLA citation style:

Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, Author, and Towhid Calligrapher Vesal. The Spiritual Couplets. Tehran: Academy of Arts and Society of Calligraphers, 2006. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666215/>.