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Chatham, N.Y. -- Rumi's poetry needs no formal introduction -- you can feel it in the soles of your feet. Robin Becker, a professional dancer who has been in step with Rumi's 13th-century Persian ...

The Sufi mysticRumi (1207-73) has been called “the best-selling poet in the U.S.” Whether or not this is the case—the claim would appall Rumi; my money’s on Homer, regardless—Rumi’s appeal, with help ...

(UNDATED) Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition, one recent Sunday afternoon. Nooraee ...

An evening of rumination on love, god and self-discovery through poetry and music at GD Birla Sabhagar, as Kabir Bedi recites Rumi Kabir Bedi performed Rumi’s poems for the first time in Kolkata at GD ...

KONYA, Turkey — Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a weeklong series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar ...

When Fatima, 55, showed signs of depression, after her only son disappeared in custody of security forces in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, doctors at a psychiatric hospital told her to visit ...

ANKARA: When Fatima, 55, showed signs of depression, after her only son disappeared in custody of security forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir, doctors at a psychiatric hospital told her to visit a ...