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
PRINTED BY THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
FOR THE TRUSTEES OF THE “E. J. W. GIBB MEMORIAL”
AND PUBLISHED BY MESSRS LUZAC & CO.
46 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C.
1926