The masnavi (Persian: معنوی, also transcribed as mathnawi; Turkish: mesnevî) is a poetic form in Persian and Ottoman literature. Persian (known variously as: فارسی Fârsi, local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, پارسی Pârsi, older, local name still used by some speakers, Tajik, a Central Asian dialect, or Dari, another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Persian literature is literature written in Persian. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The masnavi consists of an indefinite number of couplets, with the rhyme scheme aa/bb/cc, etc. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit. ... A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or in lyrics for music. ...

By far the most well-known masnavi is the Masnavi-i Ma'navi of the 13th-century Persian Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, which consists of six books of poems containing more than 25,000 verses. Many other poets, however—such as the Ottoman poet Fuzûlî, whose Leylâ ve Mecnun was written as a masnavi—have used the form. Bold textItalic text Headline text The Masnavi or Masnavi-I Manavi ((Persian:مثنوی معنوی), also written Mathnawi or Mesnevi, written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi saint and poet, is one of the best known and most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature. ... Sufism (Arabic تصوف tasÌ£awwuf) is a mystic tradition of Islam based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as it is gradually revealed to the heart and mind of the Sufi (one who practices Sufism). ... Mawlana Rumi Molana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi or Celâladin Mehmet Rumi [1](Persian: مولانا جلال الدين محمد بلخى , Arabic: جلال الدين محمد رومي) (September 30, 1207 – December 17, 1273 CE) (also known as Molana, Molavi, Mawlvi, Mawlana, meaning our guide or our master in Arabic and Persian, or Mevlana meaning our guide in Turkish) was a Turkish... Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli, most commonly referred to as Fuzuli, was born around 1494 in the Safavid Empire, although his actual date of birth is unknown. ... Layla persuading Majnun Layla and Majnun, or Leyli and Majnun, is a classical Middle Eastern love story. ...