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Rumi
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Texts
The Festival of Spring from the Díván of Jeláleddín — William HastieWilliam Hastie’s 1903 English verse renderings of fifty gazels from the Díván of Jeláleddín Rúmí, made after Friedrich Rückert’s German versions and keeping the gazel’s single rhyme, with Hastie’s introduction on the poet, the gazel form and Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyám, and closing notes from Sir William Jones, Hegel and Von Hammer.The Masnavi — Book I, Sections I-X and XII-XXXIVRumi's Masnavi Book I, selected opening sections I-X and XII-XXXIV, translated from Classical Persian with Persian source text. Section XI is not present.The Masnavi I Ma'navi — WhinfieldE.H. Whinfield's 1898 abridged English verse translation of Rumi's six-book Masnavi I Ma'navi, complete from Book I through Book VI in a single edition.The Mesnevi, Book I — James W. RedhouseJames W. Redhouse's 1881 English verse translation of the first book of Rūmī's Mesnevī, published with his prose selection of anecdotes from Eflākī's fourteenth-century Acts of the Adepts on the lives of Rūmī, his forebears and his successors in the Mevlevī order.The Persian Mystics — Jalálu'd-Dín Rúmí — F. Hadland DavisF. Hadland Davis’s small Wisdom of the East book on Jalálu'd-Dín Rúmí, with essays on the origin, early masters, nature and influence of Sufism and on Rúmí’s life, Shamsi Tabrīz and his poetry, followed by forty selections from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz and sixty from the Masnavi in the English of R. A. Nicholson, William Hastie and E. H. Whinfield, and a note on Persian poetry.