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Introduction to Sufism - Belief - Oprah Winfrey Network

2015

Varun Soni, dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, shares the basics of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam that seeks to connect the worshipper to the divine through singing, dancing or artistic expression.

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The Masnavi, Book Four

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2017
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The Masnavi, Book One

Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2008
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The Masnavi, Book Three

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2014
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The Masnavi, Book Two

The most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called "the Qur'an in Persian". Book Two is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment.

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Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (translator)
2008
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