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Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century

Kabir Helminski is the author of numerous works on Islamic spirituality

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Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival

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The Masnavi, Book Three pillow case Named by Time magazine asRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Three interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in the understanding of God's meaning. It has a special