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Afghan-born 13th century Sufi mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi is the national poet of Afghanistan, as well as a much-loved poet in America. Jeffrey Brown reports on what's behind the popularity of Rumi's ...

Although Allama Iqbal and Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi lived in entirely different eras, their spiritual connection needs no introduction. The spiritual connection between the two great scholars became ...

KARACHI: Rumi’s poetry has crossed cultural boundaries because it is based on the religion of love, said Dr Aziz Ali Najam in an enchanting lecture titled ‘Rumi’s Concept of Divine Love’ at the Aga ...

Why is the thirteenth century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi the best-selling poet in the United States? The question is not one that anyone is statistically qualified to answer. Yet in the last week, ...

KARACHI: Pakistanis are familiar with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi – a 13th century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar – as famous poets and writers in the South Asian nation had inspired by him. “Rumi ...

As all the countries that call the work of Jalaluddin Rumi their own rise up against the idea of Leonardo Di Caprio playing the poet and scholar in a Hollywood epic, social media users in Afghanistan ...

A theatrical production exploring the life, transformation and spiritual journey of the renowned Sufi poet Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was presented at the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), ...

For many years now, the most popular poet in America has been a 13th-century mystical Muslim scholar. Translations of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi's - better known as Rumi - verse are hugely popular and ...