The Illumination of Rumi




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Summary: To the astonishment of publishers, Jalaluddin Rumi has become the best-selling poet in America. Rumi’s sensational popularity is notable not only because of its content—an intoxicated, rapturous love letter to the divine—but also because his mystical poems were written in Persian in the 13th century. To see additional resources and our other programs, please visit humanmedia.org . […]