Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. His area of research is early

and medieval Sufism. Since the publication of his verse translation, The Masnavi: Book One,

which was awarded the Lois Roth Prize in 2005, he has been working towards completing the

six books of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s magnum opus. He has already published in the same Oxford

World’s Classics Series a translation of the second and third books, in 2007 and 2013,

respectively, and he is currently working on Book Four as a National endowment for the Arts

Literature Translation Fellow. His analytical books include Beyond Dogma: Rumi’s Teachings on

Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (Oxford University Press, 2012).