Masnavi

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Literature · c. 1258–1273 · Konya · Middle East

Dubbed 'the Quran in Persian': some 25,000 couplets of Sufi parables

Masnavi — Khalili Collections · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Wikimedia Commons

Author: Rumi
Century: 13th century

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