Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big
Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi
mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America.
Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and
lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now
Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of
Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey,
where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling
dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met Shams Tabriz, a
wild mystic with rare gifts and insight. The renowned scholar Rumi
had found a soul mate and friend who would become his spiritual
mentor and literary muse. "What I had thought of before as God,"
Rumi said, "I met today in a human being."
Out of their friendship, Rumi wrote thousands of lyric poems and
short quatrains in honor of his friend Shams Tabriz. They are poems
of divine epiphany, spiritual awakening, friendship, and love. For
centuries, Rumi's collection of these verses has traditionally been
bound in a red cover, hence the title of this inspired classic of
spiritual literature.
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