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The Essential Rumi

Rumi
Harper (HarperCollins) · 302 pages
★ 7.4 editorial score

Grief for a wandering dervish named Shams turned Rumi into a poet of longing for God. His great Masnavi opens with a reed flute crying for the bed it was cut from.

Medium
Poetry
Time
1273Depicts Islamic Golden Age

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