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 ...

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A meeting with a fiery wandering dervish, Shams Tabrizi, was the transformative event in the life of legendary 13th century Sufi mystic, scholar and poet Jalaluddin Rumi. From that time forward, Rumi ...

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, ...

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), ...

Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition. Nooraee, director of the Nimatullahi Sufi ...