ANYONE WHO STUMBLES upon the poetry of Rumi undoubtedly comes across Coleman Barks’ name as well. Never mind that the Persian poet lived in the 13th century and Barks, 75, lives in Athens, Ga., and ...

On May 2, 1977, Coleman Barks dreamed he was sleeping on a bluff above the Tennessee River when a ball of light rose off an island across from where he was sitting. In the dream, Barks woke up. The ...

During the last decades of his life, the Persian poet Rumi was surrounded by news of terrorism, just as we are eight centuries later. Those were the days of Mongol invasions that swept past the ...

Whether it's about God or the pangs of earthly love, the poetry of Rumi is often startlingly modern, partly due to those who have translated his poems from 13th century Persian into many of the ...

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 ...

In sometimes poetic, though sometimes prosaic and workmanlike, prose, Gooch (Smash Cut) provides an in-depth biography of Rumi, the great Sufi poet. He begins the book as he is retracing Rumi’s ...

Centuries after his death, the Sufi poet Rumi is still a phenomenon. Translations of his work routinely top bestseller lists—and have for decades. On sites like Pinterest, his verses are posted, ...

Rumi: Unveil the Sun, which returned to Delhi after 19 years, is a meditation on love, spiritual transformation, and the search for unity in a divided world.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The passing of eight centuries has done little to dim humanity’s appetite for Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the ...

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