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Rumi Comes to America: How the Poet of Mystical Love Arrived on our Shores

Rumi Comes to America: How the Poet of Mystical Love Arrived on our Shores

Miller, Bruce

Paperback

Religious BiographiesReligion General Islam

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 0998313823
ISBN13: 9780998313825
Publisher: Miller Emedia
Published: Nov 19 2018
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

SECOND EDITION: In 1976, few people had heard of Jelaluddin Rumi. Suddenly, the 13th-century Islamic theologian skyrocketed into public awareness to became America's best-selling poet.

The story focuses on the people and events behind Rumi's entry into popular culture -- including former British pop singer and author, Reshad Field, poet, Coleman Barks, and a group of young seekers who invite Süleyman Dede, head of the Whirling Dervishes, to their home in Los Angeles.

Süleyman Dede was eighteen years old when he entered the dervish monastery in Konya, Turkey, but soon after, in 1926, all dervish activities were banned. As a humble cook, serving soup to the poor, Dede's spiritual mastery went unnoticed until age 74, when he arrived in Los Angeles with a secret mission -- to plant the path of Rumi in the West.

The book's intimate recollections reveal how today's Rumi phenomenon began in the hearts of young people dedicated to Rumi's message of universal love. Pulling from improbable events, candid interviews, and archival recordings, Bruce Miller weaves an entertaining memoir of mystical magic and spiritual mayhem of that time. As a teaching story, the book illuminates how the sacred impulse traversed across 700 years of history to inject an awakening force into America, Europe, and the world at large.

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