![]() Turkey had not yet formed then and Afghanistan was part of the Khorasan Province in the old Persian Empire. It included all of today’s Iran and Afghanistan also parts of Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Iraq. ![]() Iran was called the Persian Empire, a monarchy, and it was quite larger than it is today. However none of these countries as they are today actually existed back then. Today three countries claim him as their national poet: Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan. Rumi was born on the Eastern shores of the Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh in what is now Afghanistan and finally settled in the town of Konya, in what is now Turkey. He’s on par with Beethoven, Shakespeare and Mozart. Rumi is one the world’s brightest creative talents. ![]() In all of these years I never thought that he would become so popular in the West in such a short time. ![]() I began translating Rumi in 1988, and performing his poetry in 1992. Rumi is now one of the most widely read poets in America. By Shahram Shiva from near 30 years of research on Rumi ![]()
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