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It’s hard to think of any other poets who have this much impact, let alone 13th-century poets from the other side of the world. Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, (1207-1273) and Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, (1315-1390), better known as Rumi and Hafiz, were both Persian Sufi Muslims who brought a bracing, down to earth, and everyday mysticism to their spiritual poetry. Their revelatory work leaps across all boundaries and speaks to the longing within each of us.