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A METRICAL TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH OF THE FIRST BOOK * 
OF 
THE MESNEVI POEMS 
OF 
JELALU-’D-DIN, ER-RUMI, OF QONYA. 
By JAMES WM. REDHOUSE, M.R.A.S., &c. 
Illustrated by a Selection of characteristic Aneedotes, as collected by their Historian, 
Mevlana Shemsu’d-Din Ahmed el Effaki, el ’Arifi. 
The cultured Muhammaden looks upon the “‘ Mesnevi” as the highest perfection 
of a devotional book—second only to the Koran itself as a work the reception of which 
into the mind and heart ts sure to lead him to a blessedness, as from it he learns to 
understand tt—a production of the highest spiritual sanctification, leaving everything 
else similar to tt of religious contemplativeness and intensity vastly behind. 
To complete the insight into the subtlest workings of Islam, which the sixteen or 
eighteen poems of this First Book of the “ Mesnevi” afford, and also to give a 
more detailed knowledge of the poet and his family than any hitherto published, 
Mr. Redhouse has extracted from a contemporaneous author, El Efiaki, about two 
hundred characteristic anecdotes, which he hopes will add to the utility and interest 
of the publication. 
The price to Subscribers will be—LARGE PAPER, £1 IIs. 6d. (Fifty Copies only printed, 
of which Forty have already been subscribed for); SMALL PAPER, 18s. 
Subscribers’ Names should be forwarded unmediately, 
Extxact from a Letter addressed by Colonel W. NAssAu LEEs, LL.D., Zo 
Mr. REDHOUSE, dated 5th September, 1880. 
**T can confidently confirm all that you say regarding the estimation in which the AZeszeud 
of Zr-Rumi is held by a// Muslims, and more especially devout Muslims, throughout the East. 
Be it in India, in Egypt, in Syria, or in Turkey, I have always found the name of JZev/ana 
Felalu-d-Din, Ev-Rumi, to be a shibboleth with all the religious orders, and his Mesnevi, with 
pious Muslims, to take rank above all similar poems ; if, indeed, there is one with which it can 
be compared ; which I do not think is the case. The translation of even the first book is an 
arduous undertaking; for, without much acquaintance With what you term ‘the esoteric science’ 
of the Muslims, which can only be acquired by reading the works of the great masters of the 
Ahli Tarigat, the essence of his meaning is liable to be lost.” 
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