TEHRAN A Greek researcher has translated two of the six volumes of the Masnavi of Molana Jalaladdin Rumi of Balkh. The 638-page book was recently published by Sidiris Publishers in Athens.

It was translated from Turkish into Greek. The preface contains a biography of Molana Rumi.

Ms. Mistakido works for the Greek Foreign Ministry and has lived in Turkey for many years. She is fluent in Turkish.

She says that Molana Rumi wrote the Masnavi to access the divine wisdom not through logic, but through experience, love, asceticism, and worship.