Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth Century Islamic Poet Conquered America | Media/Culture | ReligionDispatches

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth Century Islamic Poet Conquered America | Media/Culture | ReligionDispatches: "The best-selling poet in America today was born in Afghanistan, practiced a form of Islam that originated in Iraq, and has been dead for 800 years. How did a white man from Tennessee, who doesn't read a lick of Persian, make Rumi accessible to mainstream America?"