Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in ...

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 ...

At Rumi’s Kitchen, the Persian restaurant opening today near Mt. Vernon Square that’s already recognized as one of Atlanta’s top dining attractions, chef and owner Ali Mesghali measures success in ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

At a busy subway station in central Tehran, an excerpt from an iconic Persian poem from 13th century poet and mystic Jalaluddin al-Rumi greets travelers as they hop on and off, bringing smiles to ...

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.

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 ...

Translated by Fatemeh Heidari, the 2016 book discusses how the universal teachings of the 13th-century Persian poet and mystic Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi are just as relevant today as they were when he ...

To check out Rumi’s, I took along a friend whose ex was from Iran. He was in the habit of cooking stews in big quantities, she said, and his prowess in the kitchen was not a reason they broke up. She ...

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