THE MATHNAWI
OF
JALÁLU’DDÍN RÚMÍ

EDITED FROM THE OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS
AVAILABLE: WITH CRITICAL NOTES,
TRANSLATION, & COMMENTARY

BY
REYNOLD A. NICHOLSON
LITT.D., LL.D., F.B.A.
Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic and sometimes
Lecturer in Pervian in the University of Cambridge

VOLUME II

CONTAINING THE TRANSLATION
OF THE FIRST & SECOND BOOKS

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1926