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Fihi ma fihi (Discourses) — Rumi

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Fihi ma fihi (Discourses)

فیه ما فیه (Fihi ma fihi)

Rumi y su discípulo Husam al-Din Chelebi
byRumi

Table talk and answers to visitors' questions (among them the Seljuq minister Muin al-Din Parvana), in plain Persian prose with passages in Arabic. It is Rumi at his most conversational: he explains his parables, discusses theology, politics and the relation between master and disciple, and lets his humour show. It contains the famous passage on the one thing that must not be forgotten, the task for which the human being was sent into the world, and many parallels with the *Masnavi*.

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Authorship note

Seventy-one conversations of Rumi recorded by disciples, probably around Sultan Walad; the title ("In it is what is in it") is not Rumi's. Critical edition: Foruzanfar, Tehran, 1951.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Signs of the Unseen — Rumi

    Signs of the Unseen

    Threshold Books, 1994

    Translation: Wheeler M. Thackston Jr.

    ISBN 9780939660346

  • Discourses of Rumi — Rumi

    Discourses of Rumi

    John Murray, 1975

    Translation: A. J. Arberry

    ISBN 0719531802

    Primera edición 1961. Reediciones: Samuel Weiser, 2001 (1578632293); Routledge, 2004/2017 (9781138405998).

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Persa · فارسی

  • Fihi ma fih

    Intisharat-i Sanai, 1999

    Translation: Husayn Haydar Khani (ed.)

    ISBN 9649010521

    La edición crítica de referencia es la de Foruzanfar (Teherán, 1951), sin ISBN.

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Other works by Rumi

Sources

  • Lewis, Franklin D. Rumi: Past and Present, East and West. The Life, Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Oxford: Oneworld, 2000 (ed. revisada 2008).

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