Download or read book Rumi, Dancing the Flame written by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana) and published by Cal Earth Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is a 700-hundred-year-old Sufi mystic one of the best-selling poets in America today? Rumi's verses embrace human and spiritual truths fearlessly and without regard to social convention. This volume contains more than 300 translations of the poet's short poems and 32 plates of original Persian calligraphy as well as a description of the life of the poet.