A New Collection' by Farrukh Dhondy will be released on 2 April on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching ...

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many poets evoke the mystique of China in their work. In the vast universe of ...

Rumi makes his way to the shelves of American bookstores mostly through his anthologized poetry, which features predominantly the Persian bard’s so-called “ecstatic” verses. American readers ...

Now at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, I decided, naive about both translation and Rumi, to try to find a translation in Arabic for these lines from the 13th-century Persian poet: Bring ...

Here's how you know it's a hipster wedding... If you’ve been asked to do the reading, chances are it’ll be Rumi. The Persian poet and Sufi mystic of the 13th Century is a huge favourite for ...

and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of poetry, lectures, sermons, and letters in Persian and Arabic, and who founded the Mevlevi (Mawlawiyya ...

Persian poets transformed the Chigil into a lasting emblem of elegance and charm, forever immortalized in their verses. Rumi, in Divan-i Shams (The Collected Poems of Shams), wrote: "What should ...