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The Book of Rumi is another gem in Maryam Mafi ’s series of translations,
which salutes the universality of Mowlana both as a poet and as a storyteller.
I can think of no better tribute to the legacy of Rumi than Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow’s assessment of what makes a great poet:

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is
national in them, but what is universal. Their roots are in their native
soil; but their branches wave in the unpatriotic air, that speaks the
same language unto men, and their leaves shine with the illimitable
light that pervades all lands.

NARGUESS FARZAD

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