Masnavi-ye Ma'navi

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Masnavi
gptkb:Masnavi-i_Ma'navi
gptkb:Mathnawi
gptkbp:author gptkb:Rumi
gptkbp:contains parables
moral lessons
philosophical discourses
fables
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Persia
gptkbp:dateWritten 13th century
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Husam_al-Din_Chalabi
gptkbp:firstVolumeCompleted 1258 CE
gptkbp:form mathnawi
gptkbp:genre Sufi poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Masnavi-ye Ma'navi
gptkbp:importantFor called 'the Quran in Persian' by some scholars
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Persian_literature
Sufi thought
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Hadith
gptkb:Quran
gptkbp:language gptkb:Persian
gptkbp:lastVolumeCompleted 1273 CE
gptkbp:length approximately 25,000 verses
gptkbp:mainTheme gptkb:spirituality
love
union with the Divine
mystical experience
self-knowledge
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:spirituality
didactic poetry
allegorical stories
gptkbp:numberOfVolumes 6
gptkbp:preservedIn various libraries worldwide
gptkbp:significance regarded as one of the greatest works of Sufi literature
gptkbp:structure rhyming couplets
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:Sufis
students of mysticism
scholars of Persian literature
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Sufism
gptkb:spirituality
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Urdu
English
Turkish
many other languages
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Masnavi-i_Ma'navi
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6