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. Today, his ...

Time for Serenity' commemoration opens with UNESCO-recognized Sema ritual, drawing visitors from Türkiye, US, Japan, and ...

Please join us for a celebration of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th century Persian poet, philosopher and Sufi mystic. Poetry, conversation, Persian desserts and tea!<br/><br/>Everyone is invited to ...

The skirts of whirling dervishes twirl in a symphony of disco colours celebrating mystic Sufi poet Rumi at a cultural centre in central Turkey"s Konya. Every year, the "Seb-i Arus" ("Wedding Night") ...

KONYA, Turkey — 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 ...

ISTANBUL — Each Sunday, visitors line up outside of the old Sufi lodge, now a museum, in Turkey’s tourist-filled Galata district, informational pamphlets, cameras and $20 tickets in hand. The site is ...

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.” These words, spoken nearly 800 years ago by the great mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi, entice and ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

At a busy subway station in central Tehran, an excerpt from an iconic Persian poem from 13th century poet and mystic Jalaluddin al-Rumi greets travelers as they hop on and off, bringing smiles to ...