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Why is the bestselling poet in the west today a thirteenth-century Sufi poet and mystic named Jelaluddin Rumi? Transcending boundaries of culture, religion and language, Rumi's poetry, with its emphasis on the mysteries of love, is reaching deeper into the western psyche. RUMI: POET OF THE HEART looks at why this phenomenon is taking place, who is bringing Rumi's voice to the west, and presents Rumi's emergence in a way to reach both the mind and the heart of the viewer. Rumi was also founder of 'the whirling dervishes' whose trancelike ritual dance has influenced western artists such as Phillip Glass and Maurice Bejart.

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