This Longing Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi [Paperback]

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, theMathnawi. TheMathnawiconsists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme—over fifty-one thousand verses—inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from theMathnawiare presented in American free-verse style.John Moyne is a Persian scholar and Emeritus Professor and former head of Linguistics at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.US