I want to begin this one differently, because for me, this is not simply a profile of a historical figure. Rumi has been with me since before I had the language to understand what was happening to me when I heard him. I was a child the first time his words entered the room — and they have never, in any meaningful sense, left it.

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was born in Balkh, in present-day Afghanistan, in 1207....

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