the erasure of islam from rumi's poetry

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  1. Mohammed Bilal

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  2. abu Hasan

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    http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi


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    "The erasure of Islam from Rumi’s poetry started long before Coldplay got involved. Omid Safi, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Duke University, says that it was in the Victorian period that readers in the West began to uncouple mystical poetry from its Islamic roots. Translators and theologians of the time could not reconcile their ideas about a “desert religion,” with its unusual moral and legal codes, and the work of poets like Rumi and Hafez. The explanation they settled on, Safi told me, was “that these people are mystical not because of Islam but in spite of it.”
     

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