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 ...

Love, the fragile feeling that makes an individual vulnerable enough to know the innermost feelings, but strong enough to ...

Visitors from around the world gather for 11 days of events honouring Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, highlighted by the Sema ritual ...

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 ...

Although Allama Iqbal and Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi lived in entirely different eras, their spiritual connection needs no introduction. The spiritual connection between the two great scholars became ...

Westerners fail to gauge Rumi's place in Islamic mysticism and spirituality, according to the chairman of Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes) of Australia. "Rumi's teachings are popular in the West.

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 ...

The world is badly tormented by rabid hatred. Rumi’s poetry is a whiff of fresh air in the miasma and stench of blood all over the world This being human is a guest house / Every morning a new arrival ...

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, ...