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Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, 'Molavi', commentary on the Masnavi, in Urdu, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Pakistan, dated 930 AH (1524 AD)] 31 leaves, complete, collation: i8, ii12, iii8, iv1 (last leaf a singleton to complete text), v2, double-column, 15 lines of elegant black nastaliq with headings in a variety of calligraphic styles including thuluth and muhaqqaq, in black or red, some heightened in gold, colophon to first leaf outlined in black against a red background, columns and text-panels double-ruled in red, some light scattered staining, a few contemporary notes to margins, early ownership notes and stamps to opening leaf, 182 by 105 mm. (written space 136 by 66 mm.); modern pastebords with new endpapers inserted The theologian and scholar Rumi (d. 1273) was one of the most influential Persian poets and Sufi masters of his generation, whose works and teachings transcended national and linguistic barriers from his life to the present. The opening colophon of this sixteenth-century Urdu abridgment of his Masnavi refers to him as “Molana” meaning ‘our master’, one of his many names, and demonstrates just how widely respected and accepted his works became in the wider Middle East.