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 ...

Millions of readers in America and around the world know the name Rumi is synonymous with love poetry, but they don’t know much about the life of the beloved 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi ...

Gold by Rumi, translated from the Farsi by Haleh Liza Gafori, is published by New York Review Books and is available online and from independent booksellers. We hope you enjoyed this article!

The work is a revised version of an earlier children’s book, also by Rothstein, titled “The Adventures of Rumi and Bixby Bear” (Redstone Publishing House, 2020), which did not include Jewish ...

Rumi had already found an audience in America before 9/11, but interest in the mystic from Persia (now Iran) -- and in his beautiful words; in his sometimes funny stories; in his all-inclusive ...