Mevlana Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi
Paperback, 320 pages
9780192857071

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and The Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey teachings about divine love and unity to the disciples of the Sufi order that he founded, best known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Five interweaves amusing stories with homilies.