IT was the West which encouraged militancy in the Muslim world, particularly in the countries which in the past were parts of the Turkish Khilafat. Till that time it was only military power through ...

Mehr 8 in the Iranian calendar is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the prominent Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi who needs no introduction when it comes to ...

A theatrical production exploring the life, transformation and spiritual journey of the renowned Sufi poet Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was presented at the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), ...

As all the countries that call the work of Jalaluddin Rumi their own rise up against the idea of Leonardo Di Caprio playing the poet and scholar in a Hollywood epic, social media users in Afghanistan ...

“Rumi has had a dramatic impact in the Western world. His influence on Western culture and literature began with German literature initiated mainly by the work of German poet and professor of Oriental ...

In our secular society, it’s hard to imagine the enduring controversy over the relationship between 13th century Islamic poet and mystic Molana (or Mevlana) Jalaleddin Rumi and the much younger holy ...