How the Thirteenth-Century Sufi Poet Rumi Turned One of many World’s Most Fashionable Writers

The Mid­dle East is tough­ly the world’s most har­mo­nious area, and it solely will get extra frac­tious for those who add in South Asia and the Mediter­ranean. However there’s one factor on which many res­i­dents of that vast geo­graph­i­cal span can agree: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥam­mad Rūmī. One would possibly at first imag­ine {that a} thir­teenth-cen­tu­ry…