SELECTED ANECDOTES
 
FROM THE WORK ENTITLED
 
THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS
 
(MENĀQIBU 'L `ĀRIFĪN),
 
BY
 
SHEMSU-’D-‘DIN AHMED, EL EFLĀKĪ
 
PUBLISHED IN
 
 
THE MESNEVĪ
 
(USUALLY KNOWN AS THE MESNEVĪ SHERĪF, or HOLY MESNEVĪ)
 
OF
 
MEVLĀNA (OUR LORD) JELĀLU-'D-DĪN, MUHAMMED, ER-RŪMĪ.
 
BOOK THE FIRST
 
TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND ACTS
OF THE AUTHOR, OF HIS ANCESTORS, AND
OF HIS DESCENDANTS;
 
Illustrated by a Selection of Characteristic Anecdotes
 
AS COLLECTED BY THEIR HISTORIAN,
 
MEVLĀNĀ SHEMSU-'D-DĪN AHMED, EL EFLĀKĪ, EL 'ĀRIFĪ.
 
TRANSLATED, AND THE POETRY VERSIFIED,
 
BY
 
JAMES W. REDHOUSE, M.R.A.S., ETC.—
 
LONDON:
 
TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL
 
1881.