The Mathnawi

by E.H. Whinfield (Tr.)

This great work by Rumi who has been called the greatest mystical poet of any Age, was forty-three years in the writing. During the past seven hundred years, this book called by Iranians the koran in Persian, a tribute paid to no other book has occupied a central place in Sufism. Rumi`s name is associated with the founding of the order known in Europe as the Whirling Dervishes, and in the east as the path of the master.