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Considered-one-of-the-masterpieces-of-world-literature,-“-The-Big-Red-Book”-is-perhaps-the-greatest-work-of-Rumi,-the-medieval-Sufi-mystic-who-also-happens-to-be-the-bestselling-poet-in-America.Rumi-was-born-in-1207-to-a-long-line-of-Islamic-theologians-and-lawyers-on-the-eastern-edge-of-the-Persian-Empire-in-what-is-now-Afghanistan.-In-order-to-escape-the-invading-Mongol-armies-of-Genghis-Khan,-his-family-moved-west-to-a-town-now-found-in-Turkey,-where-he-eventually-became-the-leader-of-a-school-of-whirling-dervishes.-It-was-a-fateful-day-in-1244-when-he-met-Shams-Tabriz,-a-wild-mystic-with-rare-gifts-and-insight.-The-renowned-scholar-Rumi-had-found-a-soul-mate-and-friend-who-would-become-his-spiritual-mentor-and-literary-muse.-“What-I-had-thought-of-before-as-God,”-Rumi-said,-“I-met-today-in-a-human-being.”Out-of-their-friendship,-Rumi-wrote-thousands-of-lyric-poems-and-short-quatrains-in-honor-of-his-friend-Shams-Tabriz.-They-are-poems-of-divine-epiphany,-spiritual-awakening,-friendship,-and-love.-For-centuries,-Rumi’s-collection-of-these-verses-has-traditionally-been-bound-in-a-red-cover,-hence-the-title-of-this-inspired-classic-of-spiritual-literature.
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