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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).