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Rumi-nating on a New Axis

[27 February 2007]

by Derek Beres

The Sufi poet formerly known as Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi is celebrating 800 years, and the entire spectrum of Persian culture is throwing a party.
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