If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? The question was posed by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the ...

The Sufi mysticRumi (1207-73) has been called “the best-selling poet in the U.S.” Whether or not this is the case—the claim would appall Rumi; my money’s on Homer, regardless—Rumi’s ...

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Barks, who has studied Rumi's poetry for more than 25 years, has not tried to hide his lack of Persian, saying, "My theory is that you can't be a poet in a language that you didn't hear in the cradle.

(RNS) — Some of Rumi’s best-known poems speak about uprootedness and the desire to relocate. Now they are helping refugee and US Muslim youth adjust.

with a wise and poetic saying from the famed Sufi poet Rumi. According to many accounts, Rumi became the best-selling poet in the English language in the 1990’s, continuing onto today.

System of a Down's Serj Tankian has released a new music video for his song, "Rumi," a tribute to his son and the 13th century Sufi poet.

The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

Ah yes, who better to play Sufi poet Rumi — who was born in present-day Afghanistan and traveled through Baghdad and Mecca, eventually settling in what's now Turkey — than Leo DiCaprio, a ...

Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a weeklong series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar and Sufi ...