Rumi: Sufi poet of love

Are we entering an era when robots will finally liberate people, and particularly women, from the drudgery of housework? There is certainly a buzz around domestic robots right now and every month seems to bring us a new autonomous machine that can fold your clothes or stack your ...  Show more

One of the first recorded examples of a marriage ceremony is dated more than 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia. And it seems that through the ages, weddings have never lost their appeal. The global wedding industry is today worth billions of dollars, and it is one that keeps on growi ...  Show more

Ever since their composition in the 13th century the poems of the Persian writer Rumi have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (Harper, 2017), Brad Gooch describes the life of their author and the path that took h ...  Show more

This month we’re talking to one of Turkey’s foremost writers Elif Shafak. She’s answering your questions about her bestselling novel The Forty Rules of Love, an investigation into love, mysticism and the life of the famed Sufi poet Rumi. Crossing continents and centuries two para ...  Show more

Who brings you to praise? Rumi’s great poem of praise to the “you” is to his great friend Shams, and through that friendship, to God.Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet. He left behind a vast body of lyric poetry, metaphysical writings, lectures, and letters, which hav ...  Show more

<div>قصيدة فريدة من عيون الشّعر العربيّ، تسبّبت في موت شاعرها، فسمّاها أهل الأدب بعد موته بالقصيدة اليتيمة، 
نُسبت إلى كثير من الشّعراء، وقِيل فيها كثير من الأقاويل والرّوايات، لكنّ أغلب المصادر تؤكد أنها للشاعر المُلقب بدَوقَلة المَنبِجيّ، حيث كانت آخر ما قاله من الشّعر، فسُ ...  Show more