Rumi - The Persian Mystic

Rumi (1207-1273) was a Persian jurist and theologian best known widely translated and remains especially popular in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Though written from a Sufi perspective, Rumi's poems on spiritual growth - here collected and edited by F. Hadland Davis and first published in 1907 -cross all cultural and religious bounds, and can still be heard today in many secular and religious settings.