Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin RumiWhatever human beings do - however compulsive or ludicrous - to Rumi, it affords a glimpse of the inner life. This work reveals the very human properties in Rumi's vision. It includes the notorious 'Latin Parts' that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. |
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