This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi, Paperback/Jelaluddin Rumi

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi . The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme--over fifty-one thousand verses--inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style. About the Author: John Moyne is a Persian scholar and Emeritus Professor and former head of Linguistics at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.