The Masnavi (Masnavi i Ma'navi), abridged

Edition and rights

Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad Rumi, translated and abridged by E. H. Whinfield, second edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., London, 1898 (first edition 1887)

Published 1887 (second edition 1898); translator E. H. Whinfield died 1922. Public domain worldwide (life+70) and in the US (published before 1929).

Source: https://sacred-texts.com/isl/masnavi/index.htm Text taken from the Internet Sacred Text Archive's plain-text transcription (retrieved through the Internet Archive because sacred-texts.com refuses automated downloads); the archive's page headers and notes, and the book's front matter, notes and commentary, removed. Normalisation: transcription slip corrected: 'enters his mind. l0' -> 'enters his mind.'; transcription slip corrected: 'Joseph a###130######142###d the Mirror.' -> 'Joseph and the Mirror.'; transcription slip corrected: 'family of birds. l3' -> 'family of birds.'; transcription slip corrected: 'a f1###126###esh form' -> 'a fresh form'; Book V: story printed as 'STORY VIII.' is story 13 in sequence; numbered by sequence; Book V: 'STORY VIII. (continued)' kept as its own unit after story 12; Whinfield's closing 'Note on Apocryphal Supplements to the Masnavi' excluded; footnote reference numerals after words and punctuation removed: 461; Whinfield's NOTES blocks dropped; Whinfield's prose summaries and connecting narrative (printed in the body of his abridgement) kept as paragraphs; verse lines joined with "\n"; Story titles stored in unit 'heading' (trailing period dropped); the 'Spiritual Couplets' running title repeated at each book removed; Rumi's section headings inside stories (e.g. 'Description of Love.') are not marked in the transcription and stay as lines of the text; OCR slips of the transcription (e.g. 'ho' for 'he', 'flute,l') kept as in the source file.