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Rumi; Haleh Liza Gafori (Translator, Editor)

The thirteenth-century Persian sage Rumi was chiefly known as a preacher and a man of serious and sober views. But at the age of forty, his encounter with the poet Shams of Tabriz left him utterly transformed. Rumi became a poet himself, a poet in single-minded pursuit of ecstatic illumination and liber...