Re:Keep Your Identity Small
by ajju on Sunday February 08, 2009 @01:11AM
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It is astounding how little this liberal face of Islam is known outside of the Indian subcontinent and possibly the educated populace of Iran.
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Also, this is not a Bollywood song. It is a poem by a 17th/18th century Punjabi Sufi Muslim poet Bulleh Shah performed here by a Punjabi Sikh called "Rabbi" with scenes from Hindu majority India in the background and English subtitles.
So many identities :)
Well, Rumi is the best-selling poet in the United States. Rightly so, too: the Sufi poets are as great as any poetry ever written, I think, and can be astonishingly modern. That being said, I have the impression that they are distinctly non grata in the vast majority of the Muslim world. No?