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Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

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Born
August 17 1868
Died
2626 08 19451945
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Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, was the greatest Rumi scholar in the English language. He was a professor for many years at Cambridge Universtiy, in England. He dedicated his life to the study of Islamic mysticism and was able to study and translate major sufi texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. That a Western scholar of "the first rank" dedicated much of his life to the study and translation of Rumi's poetry was very fortunate.

His monumental achievement was his work on Rumi's Masnavi . He produced the first critical Persian edition of Rumi's Masnavi, the first full translation of it into English, and the first commentary on the entire work in English. This work has been highly influential in the field of Rumi studies, world-wide. His critical Persian text has been re-printed many times in Iran and his commentary has been so highly respected there, that it has been translated into Persian .

Nicholson also produced two volumes which condensed his work on the Masnavi and which were aimed at the popular level: "Tales of Mystic Meaning" and "Rumi: Poet and Mystic" .

His earliest translations of selected ghazals from Rumi's Divan has been superceded by A. J. Arberry's translations , in that Arberry used a superior edition of the Divan . Arberry re-translated all of the ghazals previously translated Nicholson based on the superior edition, minus seven ghazals which were not in the earliest manuscripts of the Divan (and therefore are no longer considered by scholars to be authentic Rumi poems .

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

4.3/5 ( ratings)
Born
August 17 1868
Died
2626 08 19451945
Website
Go to Website
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, was the greatest Rumi scholar in the English language. He was a professor for many years at Cambridge Universtiy, in England. He dedicated his life to the study of Islamic mysticism and was able to study and translate major sufi texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. That a Western scholar of "the first rank" dedicated much of his life to the study and translation of Rumi's poetry was very fortunate.

His monumental achievement was his work on Rumi's Masnavi . He produced the first critical Persian edition of Rumi's Masnavi, the first full translation of it into English, and the first commentary on the entire work in English. This work has been highly influential in the field of Rumi studies, world-wide. His critical Persian text has been re-printed many times in Iran and his commentary has been so highly respected there, that it has been translated into Persian .

Nicholson also produced two volumes which condensed his work on the Masnavi and which were aimed at the popular level: "Tales of Mystic Meaning" and "Rumi: Poet and Mystic" .

His earliest translations of selected ghazals from Rumi's Divan has been superceded by A. J. Arberry's translations , in that Arberry used a superior edition of the Divan . Arberry re-translated all of the ghazals previously translated Nicholson based on the superior edition, minus seven ghazals which were not in the earliest manuscripts of the Divan (and therefore are no longer considered by scholars to be authentic Rumi poems .

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مثنوی معنوی

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Selected Poems of Rumi

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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

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في التصوف الإسلامي وتاريخه

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Literary History Of The Arabs

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The Kashf al-Mahjub (The Revelation of the Veiled) of Ali b. 'Uthman al-Jullãbi Hujwiri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism (Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies)

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تصوف اسلامی و رابطۀ انسان و خدا

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The Secret Rose Garden & The Secrets of the Self

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The Essential Rumi - New Expanded Edition 2020: Translations By Coleman Barks with John Moyne

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The Mathnawi of Jalalu'din Rumi - Book 2: Spiritual Couplets of Mystical Meaning

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Sufism: Mystical Doctrines and the Idea of Personality (Masterpieces of Sufism)

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Sufism: The Mysticism of Islam

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The Mathnawi of Jalalu'din Rumi - Book 3

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The Kitab Al-Luma Fi L-Tasawwuf of Abu Nasr Abdallah B. Ali Al-Sarraj Al-Tusi: Edited for the First Time, with Critical Notes and Abstract (1914)

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Elementary Arabic: A Grammar

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Elementary Arabic: a grammar being an abridgement of Wright's Arabic grammar to which it will serve as a table of contents

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