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Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi

by Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi, Coleman Barks · 1990

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Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these parables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin Parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do—however compulsive or ludicrous—affords a glimpse of the inner life.

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spiritualityspiritualityMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 146 pages
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