The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic journal (est. 2010) devoted to the poetry, life, thought, and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of ...
Konya is also known as the home of the Mevlevi order, the Sufi sect that follows the teachings of Rumi, often called whirling dervishes, due to their distinctive spinning prayer known as Sema.
Here's how you know it's a hipster wedding... If you’ve been asked to do the reading, chances are it’ll be Rumi. The Persian poet and Sufi mystic of the 13th Century is a huge favourite for ...