Rumi — The Poet Read 800 Years Later
Hi there, and welcome to 8 Minute Lives. Every year, somewhere near the top of the poetry bestseller lists in the United States, you'll find a man who died in 1273. He wrote in Persian, in a city in what is now Turkey, for an audience of medieval mystics. And yet his lines about love and longing get read at weddings in California, quoted by pop stars, and printed on greeting cards. His name is Rumi. And the strange thing is, the man behind those verses spent the first half of his life as a rather conventional religious scholar. Then one afternoon, a wandering stranger walked into his life…
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