Jalal al-Din Rumi’s encounter with the wandering mystic Shams of Tabriz transformed him from scholar to poet. The Masnavi remains the most referenced text in Sufism.
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Rumi
13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose verse became one of the most widely read expressions of divine love.
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Sources
- Rumi, The Masnavi, trans. Jawid Mojaddedi (Oxford World's Classics, 2004–2014)
- Franklin Lewis, Rumi: Past and Present, East and West (Oneworld, 2000)
- Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi (HarperOne, 1995)