- Published: 17 October 2006
- ISBN: 9780140447910
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $27.99
Spiritual Verses

















This poems has been called ' the Qu'ran of the Persian language'
Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.
- Published: 17 October 2006
- ISBN: 9780140447910
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $27.99