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The Essential Rumi (1995), "A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold A. Nicholson. Barks does not speak or read Persian; his 'translations' are therefore technically paraphrases and have been criticised by many scholars. Barks bases his paraphrases entirely on other English translations of Rumi which include renderings by Moyne and Nicholson.

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