On 3/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chuck Grimes</b> <<a href="mailto:cgrimes@rawbw.com">cgrimes@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I went searching for some background on Al-Din (a mixed CD that Joanna<br>did). It is evidently a common part of a name and the closest I could<br>come to a likely suspect was Fakhr al-Din-Razi. He shares the name<br>with the Persian poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi. So it is highly confusing to
<br>sort these people out. </blockquote></div><br>It is Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmi. I don't know arabic, so not sure if there is any significant difference between ad-Din and al-Din. <br><br>--sharif <br><br clear="all"><br>--
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