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 ...

Celebrated author, playwright, and screenwriter Farrukh Dhondy’s latest book, Rumi, takes an insightful look into the life and works of Jalal-al-Din Rumi, one of the most widely read poets in ...

Since then, he has published more than a dozen Rumi books. In our conversation, Barks described Rumi’s poetry as “the mystery of opening the heart,” a thing that, he told me, “you can’t ...

Some of the poet’s smaller secrets are revealed in the book’s first section, which opens with Rumi, at five years old, seeing angels. His father, an esteemed Muslim preacher and teacher, ...

Now, to rescue Rumi from this inane Orientalizing comes the poet, novelist and biographer Brad Gooch with "Rumi's Secret."A dazzling feat of scholarship, but a pedestrian read, the book restores ...

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 ...

An 807-year-old Persian mystic and dervish, Rumi, ... Rumi: The Big Red Book and Rumi’s father’s spiritual diary, The Drowned Book, all published by HarperOne.