masnavi.ai — Rumi's Masnavi as an MCP server
The complete Masnavi-ye Maʿnavi of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī — all 25,635 beyts (couplets) in 6 daftars, 972 sections — served as a free, public, read-only Model Context Protocol server. Your agent can search, quote, verify, and explain Rumi from the canonical text instead of inventing him.
- Site: https://masnavi.ai (read it in 31 languages)
- MCP endpoint:
https://masnavi.ai/mcp(Streamable HTTP, no auth) - REST + OpenAPI: https://masnavi.ai/api/openapi.json
- Discovery: https://masnavi.ai/.well-known/mcp.json · https://masnavi.ai/llms.txt
- Docs: https://masnavi.ai/docs
Connect
{ "mcpServers": { "masnavi": { "type": "http", "url": "https://masnavi.ai/mcp" } } }
Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http masnavi https://masnavi.ai/mcp
Tools (9)
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search | full-text search across all 25,635 beyts, ranked |
lookup | a beyt by citation (M1:1 = daftar 1, beyt 1) with neighbours |
verify | is this really a line by Rumi? fuzzy-checks a quotation against the corpus |
get_section | one named section (story) with all its beyts |
get_range | a full multi-section story in one call (≤500 beyts) |
find_sections | find a story by (Persian) title fragment |
table_of_contents | the 972 sections, by daftar |
random_beyt | a random couplet |
explain | per-beyt commentary by named scholars |
Citations use M{daftar}:{beyt} (e.g. M3:1278). Text sourced from
Ganjoor; the Masnavi is in the
public domain.
Why
Language models routinely misattribute Persian poetry. This server exists so agents can ground every Rumi quotation in the canonical text — search it, cite it, and verify it — in any language.
This repository holds the public metadata for the hosted server at masnavi.ai; the service itself runs at the endpoint above.