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I’m both thrilled and worried.
I regularly teach the Masnavi — twice annually, of late — in one of my courses. Rumi is a fascinating thinker, and an enormously influential one. Some have called his Masnavi “the Persian Qur’an.”
What is Hollywood likely to do with such a person?
I suspect that they’ll be more respectful to a Muslim saint than they typically are to Christians and/or to Jesus himself. But, still . . .
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