Rumi: Best Selling Poet in the US but Islam has Been Intentionally Erased From His Poetry

Rumi is often described as the best-selling poet in the United States. He is typically referred to as a mystic, a saint, a Sufi, an enlightened man. Curiously, however, although he was a lifelong scholar of the Koran and Islam, he is less frequently described as a Muslim. 

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