Masnavi
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The Masnavi or Masnavi I Ma'navi (مثنوی معنوی in Persian), also written Mathnawi or Mesnevi, is a six book collection of texts, poems, teaching stories and prayers written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the well known Persian Sufi saint and poet. It is considered by some to be the most important work of literature in the Muslim world outside the Qur'an. When it was first translated into English many passages were translated into Latin, as the passages would have been scandalous in Victorian England due to the ribald and salacious nature of some of Rumi's writings.
