E-grāmata: Routledge Revivals: More Tales from the Masnavi (1963)

Introduction; The incontinent lover, on the sin of arrogance; The
preacher who prayed for sinners; The Sufi who answered his unfaithful wife
obliquely; The tanner who fainted, on suiting the cure to the ailment; Othman
in the pulpit; Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; The clay-eater and the
druggist; The dervishs dream; The conversion of Ibrahim ibn Adham; The man
who dropped walnuts into a stream; The infant Muhammad lost and found; The
Sufi in the orchard; The king and his slave, on the proper answer for fools;
The scholar and the thief; The false panegyrist; The Prophet and the young
man of Hudhail; Bayazid and his disciples; The three fishes; The fowler and
the bird; Pharaoh and Moses; Ali and the child, on congeneity; Muhammad and
the Bedouin chiefs; The end of the story of Moses and Pharaoh; The king, the
boon-companion and the courtier; Moses questions Gods purpose; The prince
and the Witch of Kabul; The drought and the laughing ascetic; The mule and
the camel; The Egyptian and the Israelite; The woman and the pear-tree; The
descent and ascent of Man; Alexander the Great and Mount Qaf; The pen and the
ants; The four birds: the duck; The greedy unbeliever; The four birds: the
peacock; The Bedouin and his dog; The sage and the peacock; The four birds:
the crow; The gazelle and the asses; The four birds: the cock; The man who
claimed to be a prophet; The faithful lover; The mystic and the puppies; The
creation of Adam; The simpleton and his answer; King Mahmud and Ayaz; Nasuhs
repentance; The ass and the Arab horses; The fox and the ass; The ascetic who
trusted in God; The man who feared to be taken for an ass; Shaikh Sar-razi of
Ghazna; The parable of the anxious cow; The monk who searched for a man; The
thief in the orchard; The bold dervish of Herat; Majnun and Lailas beauty;
The muezzin with the evil voice; The greedy wife and the cat; The merry
prince and the Christian ascetic; Dalqak and the King of Tirmidh; The wife
and the guest; The girl who married beneath her; The Sufi who was a coward;
The story of Iyadi; The caliph and the general; The bird and the fowler; The
watchman who fell asleep; The Turk and the minstrel; The poet and the
Shiites of Aleppo; The midnight drummer; The devotion of Bilal; How Abu Bakr
bought Bilal from his Jewish master; The amir and the refractory horse;
Muhammad visits Hilal; The disappointed beggar; The hag who hankered for a
husband; Sultan Mahmud and the Indian boy; The sick man, the Sufi and the
Cadi; The Turk and the tailor; The Sufi and the tailor; The Sufi and the
priest; The poor man and his nagging wife; The answer to the paupers prayer;
Shaikh Abu l-Husain and his wife; The camel, the ox and the ram; The Jew,
the Christian and the Muslim; How Dalqak rode to town in haste; The mouse and
the frog; King Mahmud and the thieves; Abd al-Ghauth and the Peris; Jafar
attacks a fortress single-handed; The dervish debtor and the Inspector of
Tabriz; The ruler of Bukhara and the jurist beggar; The drunken king and the
reluctant jurist; The man who sought for treasure; Goha, his wife and the
cadi; God speaks with the Angel of Death; The child and the bogy; Notes.

A. J. Arberry