


Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani in al-Durar al-Kamina (1:352) cites him as "Mawlana" in the vibrant notice on his son Baha' al-Din Ahmad, known as Sultan ibn Mawlana, "one of the Imams of the Hanafi Masters, the brilliant, ascetic, pious Faqih, Usuli, and grammarian who trod the path of his father in leaving the world behind." Mawlana's full name is Muhammad ibn Muhammad (ibn Muhammad) ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Qasim ibn Habib ibn 'Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq al-Hashimi. Maulana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi was the son, father, and grandfather of great Sunni Hanafi Jurists, teachers, and qadis, originating from Balkh or Kabul and settled in and around Istanbul. Not every intellect stays steadfast friends, ♦ The ideal introduction to Rumi for the non-specialist reader.♦ An extensive introduction, notes, and glossary providing essential background information.♦ Verse translation into heroic couplets of the original Persian poem.

♦ This fifth book of Rumi's The Masnavi is well-known to contain much explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total and uncompromising way.♦ First ever unabridged translation of the entirety of Book Five of The Masnavi into Modern English.Masnavi, Book Five, Rumi /Mojaddedi, Oxford World's Classics 5
