An hour on friendship as the centre of Rumi's work, and on what a translator owes the original.
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American poet (1937–2026) who taught literature at the University of Georgia for three decades and became the best-known English voice of Rumi. He was a student of the Sufi shaykh Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. He neither spoke nor read Persian and worked from earlier English translations, and his versions have been criticised for leaving Rumi's Islam out of the poems.
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A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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