A New Collection' by Farrukh Dhondy will be released on 2 April on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching ...

Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207–1273) was a poet, scholar, and dervish dedicated to Sufi mysticism. His wisdom, originally in Persian, has been translated into many languages, offering students comfort during ...

He seems to say that he had encountered Rumi in Damascus, after the death of his father Baha-al-din Valad and before Rumi succeeded him as the Mowlana, the professor-preacher of Konya. In an ...

What has lead you to focus on Rumi's poems at first? How did your interest in Rumi and Sufism started? I have loved Rumi’s poetry, since discovering a two-volume edition of his lyric poems ...

Then they search. And then the others, they come for the poetry,” explained Celal Çelebi, a 23rd-generation descendent of Rumi and member of the family that has led the Mevlevi order in Konya ...

I wanted to send him a quotation from Rumi that I had been carrying around with me since I had left home. But while Mido’s English was very good, I thought it might be a bit silly to send him an ...

Rumi’s poetry often speaks of love as a spiritual awakening, a force that liberates and transforms. His concept of the field—a space where human judgments dissolve—invites us to reconsider ...

The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic journal (est. 2010) devoted to the poetry, life, thought, and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of ...

At House of Wisdom, we are honouring Rumi with an exhibition that tells his story in a new light while bringing his poetry and works to life like never before.” Returning to Konya after his ...