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| | Introduction |
 | | In his magnum opus, ‘The Spiritual Couplets,’ or Masnavi-ye manavi, Rumi retells a tale told by an earlier Persian mystic poet, Sanai (d. |
 | | Indeed, any objective western reader who takes the time to compare the Divina Commedia with the Masnavi, which is about twice as long as the former, will have to acknowledge that Rumi, who wrote a half century before Dante, reflects a much more ecumenical spirit and a far broader and deeper religious sensibility. |
 | | I have tried to render those poems consisting primarily of narrative couplets (designated by the generic Persian term masnavi) into blank verse for the most part. |
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