Who Was Rumi? The Soul Blueprint of the Scholar Who Became a Poet
Rumi was the respected religious-legal scholar of Konya who, at age thirty-seven, met the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz on a street in the autumn of 1244 — and was set on fire so completely that the next twenty-five years of his life produced the most widely-read mystical poetry in human history. This is the biographical reading of the scholar who became a poet, drawn through three traditions, written as a personal letter.
