Mathnawi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi a.k.a. Mevlana/Mawlana a.k.a. Rumi är bland de största poeter världen har skådat. Hans största verk, som även blev hans sista, heter Mathnawi (Masnavi). Han var sufisk mystiker och är känd långt utanför den islamska sfären. Världen firade nyligen hans 800 årsdag. Rumi skrev på persiska och Mathnawi kallas för den ”persiska koranen”, men många ser hos Rumi något som inte är bunden till någon specifik religion. Jag ger här länkar till nätresurser.
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi a.k.a. Mevlana/Mawlana a.k.a. Rumi is among the greatest poets that have ever lived. His greatest work, which also was his last, is named Mathnawi (Masnavi). He was a Sufi mystic and is well known outside Muslim circles. The world celebrated his 800th birth anniversary not long ago. Rumi wrote in Persian and Mathnawi is called the ”Quran in Persian”, but many  see insights from Rumi that are not particular to any one religion. I will post links here to web resources.

BBC article The roar of Rumi – 800 years on.

Dar-al-Masnavi has a comprehensive walk-through of the different English translations and versions of Mathnawi.

Whinfield’s (abridged) translation of Mathnawi … ehem, greatly abridged.

At Google Books
The Masnavi: The Spiritual Couplets of Mauláná Jalálu’d-din Muhammad Rúmí
The Masnavi I Ma’navi of Rumi: Complete

At the Internet Sacred Text Archive

The Masnavi I Ma’navi by Maulana Jalalu-‘d-din Muhammad Rumi.

Jawid Ahmad Mojaddedi’s translation (Oxford)

At Google Books
The Masnavi

At Scribd
The Masnavi : Book One; A new translation by Jawid Mojaddedi
The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World’s Classics) – Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi