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Original Title: Rumi – Poet Of The Heart
Released: 2011
Country: Iran
Director: Haydn Reiss
Language: Persian
Theme: Art & Music
Genre: Documentary
Summary
The surprising bestselling poet in America is a thirteenth-century Sufi poet and mystic named Jelaluddin Rumi. For seven hundred years, Rumi’s writings have enchanted, inspired, and enlightened Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists. Rumi’s poetry celebrates the sacred in everyday existence and transcends boundaries of time, place, and religion to speak to all people. Coleman Barks’ “The Essential Rumi” has sold over 100,000 copies, and he is considered the preeminent translator of Rumi today.
“RUMI: Poet of the Heart,” features Barks along with poet/translator Robert Bly (who in 1976 encouraged Barks to begin to translate Rumi); author Deepak Chopra, storyteller and mythologist Michael Meade, and religious historian and author of “The World’s Religions”, Huston Smith. Oud virtuoso Hamza El Din and musician Jai Uttal offer inspiring accompaniment to this lively and provocative exploration of the genius and timeliness of Rumi’s emergence in the west.
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