Sir James Redhouse translates the first book of Rumi’s vast teaching poem, opening with the lament of the reed-flute torn from its bed, and moving through fables, jokes and parables about kings, merchants, parrots and lovers. Before the poem comes a long selection of anecdotes from the historian Eflaki about Rumi and the Mevlevi order of whirling dervishes he founded.
A full Victorian rendering of the poem that made Rumi the most read mystic in the Persian world. Download the free EPUB.