Rumi has helped the spiritual journeys of other celebrities—Madonna, Tilda Swinton—some of whom similarly incorporated his work into theirs. Aphorisms attributed to Rumi circulate daily on ...

After Shams was extinguished, Rumi fell into a deep state of grief and gradually out of that pain outpoured nearly 70,000 verses of poetry almost all in Persian that are collected in two epic 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 ...

His newest book, "Rumi: Bridge to the Soul," in honor of the 800th anniversary of the poet's birthday, came out Sept. 18. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

“Dorothy Day” by Kate Hennessy, Scribner, 384 pages, $27.99It’s the tag line, six words wafting just above a watery image of a mother and child up to their ankles in ocean, that captures the ...

In his book, Rumi: The Big Red Book (2010), Coleman Barks, who has translated much of Rumi’s poetry, says that over the last 12 years of his life, Rumi wrote or dictated his longest luminous ...