Rozina Ali on how contemporary translations of the Persian poet Rumi obscure the original poems’ Koranic references.

Published by HarperCollins India, 'Rumi: A New Collection' by Farrukh Dhondy will be released on 2 April on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Born in what is now Afghanistan, the poet Jalaluddin Rumi was reviled by the Taliban because of his poems about love, sex, nature, loss, longing and other subjects that the now-deposed regime ...

Rumi is said to have penned nearly 70,000 verses of poetry, almost all in Persian, compiled in two magnum opus books — one dedicated to his mentor Shams Tabrizi called Diwan e Shams and the ...

He translated Persian texts, among them Rumi’s divine verses, though no evidence of these translations remains. What does remain in printed form is his translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat .

An 807-year-old Persian mystic and dervish, Rumi, has a massive following in the US and around the world. Jane Ciabattari explains his enduring influence.

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 2002: Portrait of Gialal al-Din Rumi (Balkh, Afghanistan 1207-Konya, Turkey 1273), Persian poet and mystic, founder of the Sufi brotherhood of the whirling dervishes.

Rumi, an intriguing new revue based on the writings of 13th-century Persian poet and mystic Jalal-al-Din Mohammad Balkhi (or Rumi, for short), runs Friday through Sunday (Feb. 19-21) at the Stella ...

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi famous as Rumi and popularly known as Mawlana in Iran and Afghanistan was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi was born in 1207 CE ...

Dervishes pray during a "Seb-i Arus" ceremony at Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, late Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, to mark the 734th anniversary of the death of Sufi mystic poet Rumi or Mevlana.