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Primary sources of commentary on the Masnavi

The corpus served by masnavi.ai is the Masnavi text itself, sourced from Ganjoor and frozen as a read-only artifact. Commentary — interpretations, translations, paraphrases — is layered on top, attributed to its primary source.

Every commentary entry includes a confidence level: verbatim means the text is a direct excerpt from the source; reviewed means a human curator has approved an AI-generated extract; ai-draft means an AI extract is awaiting review.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Abdolkarim Soroush — Lectures on Masnavi, Daftar 1

lecture-series · 8 beyts with commentary

Recorded lecture series by the contemporary Iranian philosopher Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush on the first daftar of Rumi's Masnavi-ye Maʿnavi. Sessions transcribed verbatim from video.

https://www.youtube.com/@drsoroush · fair-use commentary (transcripts paraphrased for AI summarisation)

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro — Deep Exegesis

ai-generated · 18 beyts with commentary

AI-generated rich exegesis (Persian + English) covering imagery, Sufi/mystical meaning, and thematic cross-references.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models · ai-draft (review required)

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro — Linear Gloss

ai-generated · 18 beyts with commentary

AI-generated line-by-line gloss with Persian paraphrase + literal English translation. Compact format, one short paragraph each in FA and EN per beyt.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models · ai-draft (review required)

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — Deep Exegesis

ai-generated · 18 beyts with commentary

AI-generated bilingual deep exegesis (Persian + English) with rigorous Sufi terminology and Quranic/Hadith citations.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models · ai-draft (review required)

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — Linear Gloss

ai-generated · 18 beyts with commentary

AI-generated line-by-line gloss with Persian paraphrase + literal English translation, from Google's newest reasoning model (preview).

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models · ai-draft (review required)

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How sources are added

Sources are added by the maintainer. The current workflow:

  1. Acquire primary materials: transcripts, books, classical commentaries.
  2. Register the source in the sources table with provenance.
  3. Run the commentary-ingest pipeline per beyt — an AI extracts what the source says about that specific beyt from the primary materials.
  4. Mark each entry as ai-draft initially; promote to reviewed after human inspection, verbatim if the entry is a direct quote.

If you have a primary source you would like added — a lecture series, a published commentary, your own paraphrase — get in touch.