Collection of poems of Molavi with a preface of Ostad Jalal-al-din Homaii

Rumi: 13th Century Love Doctor

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 16, 2017

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 Art on Wednesday, January 18th at 150 West 17th St. at 7:00pm. For more information, click here.

Gooch will be at Rizzoli Bookstore at 1133 Broadway on Thursday, January 26 at 6:00pm. For more information, click here.

Gooch will be at Cathedral of St. John the Divine at 1047 Amsterdam Ave. on Tuesday, January 31st. For more information, click here. 

 

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