"Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations" white liberals lmao (en.wikipedia.org)

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American translators

Iranologists

Poets from Tennessee

Sufi poets

University of California, Berkeley alumni

this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol

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[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

🧵 on the secularization of Rumi including examples https://nitter.net/PersianPoetics/status/1261745279860080641#m

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of how Westerners try to turn the Daodejing into this weird proto-anarchist work when it's actually fairly autocratic at places. The Ursula translation was pretty bad, especially the part where she took out a passage because it was too "Confucian."