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Rumi: 13th Century Love Doctor

by WNYC

Author and professor Brad Gooch joins us to discuss Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, a new biography of the 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. Gooch paints a vivid map of Rumi's dramatic life as he traveled over 2,500 miles from his birthplace in Central Asia " traveling with his family, displaced during the war " to finally settle in Konya, Turkey. Gooch will be at the Rubin Museum of …

SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00am on January 18, 2017