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.