Dr. Leo Parvis, a cultural diversity/global studies professor at Dunwoody Technical College and “Eye on Diversity” columnist for the Chaska Herald, has recently released a book of translated poems ...

It was on this journey that Rumi encountered the famous mystic Persian poet, Attar. When Attar saw Rumi walking behind his father he is believed to have said "Here comes a sea followed by an ocean." ...

and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of poetry, lectures, sermons, and letters in Persian and Arabic, and who founded the Mevlevi (Mawlawiyya ...