Book Mathnawi translation Books V-VI Nicholson's English translation of Books V and VI of Rumi's Persian Sufi didactic poem the Mathnawi. ← Sufism AuthorJalal al-Din Rumi TypeBook Written1934 Edition1933 PublisherTrustees of the "E. J. W. Gibb Memorial" (Gibb Memorial Series) LanguageEnglish Tradition Sufism Where to find it E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust — The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi: Volume 6, English Text (Nicholson) Blackwell's — Mathnawi Vol. VI Containing the Translation of the Fifth & Sixth Books, ed. R. A. Nicholson, Trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial