The Masnavi is a vast, six-book poem by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, comprising a series of parables and anecdotes. It is considered one of the most influential works of Sufism and Persian literature, exploring spiritual teachings and ethics.
Sources for Rumi — Masnavi
Rumi — Masnavi in Poetry
Held in the Poetry chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Hesiod — Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)
- Anonymous — Classic of Poetry (Shijing) (c. 1000–600 BCE)
- Various Japanese poets — Manyoshu (c. 759 CE)
- Ferdowsi — Shahnameh (1010)
- Hafez — Divan (14th century)
- Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy (c. 1320)
- Sappho — Poems (c. 600 BCE)
- Pindar — Odes (c. 470 BCE)
- Horace — Complete Works (c. 23 BCE)
- Li Po — The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet (8th century)
- Omar Khayyam — Rubaiyat (12th century)
- Dante Alighieri — The New Life (La Vita Nuova) (c. 1294)
- Walt Whitman — Leaves of Grass (1855)
- Emily Dickinson — Poems (1890)
- Rabindranath Tagore — Gitanjali (1912)
- Sir Walter Scott — The Lady of the Lake (1810)
- Edgar Lee Masters — Spoon River Anthology (1915)