025 Which Rumi are you Reading?

Zara and Zirrar talk to poet Baraka Blue about the life, work and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Baraka tells us about the era in which he lived and how he came to be the great poet we know him as. They discuss his most famous work, the Masnavi, which is often referred to as the 'Persian Quran.' Zirrar and Baraka share their somewhat differing views on the controversy surrounding English translations of his work, and the claim that Islam has deliberately been 'erased' from his poetry. We consider how Rumi was received in the West and the East, and how his poetry, or perceptions of his poetry differ accordingly.

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025 Which Rumi are you Reading? is an episode from Sacred Footsteps - The Podcast by Sacred Footsteps.

This episode is 01:09:36 long.

This episode was published on May 29, 2020.

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