"Berkeley: The Great Night of Rumi draws fans of America's best-loved poet
Quick, name the most popular poet in the United States.
Judging by book sales, it's not Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath or even Walt Whitman, though one can certainly see Whitman as the spiritual descendent of Jelaluddin Rumi, whose works have sold some half a million volumes in recent years. At a time when there's a lot of reckless talk about a clash of civilizations pitting the West against the Muslim world, the fact that an Islamic mystic born in a land that is now part of Afghanistan has a vast American following certainly bears contemplation."
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