“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 ...

KONYA, TurkeyKONYA, Turkey — To prepare for the ritual ahead, Omer Kilic and his 14-year-old son dress in white robes, drape black cloaks over them and don cone-shaped hats called “sikke.” The tennure ...

I had never exerted so much energy just to send a text. I wanted to tell the man who had been my guide in Aswan, Egypt, that his kind hospitality, his vulnerability and honesty, his genuine love for ...

Whether it's about God or the pangs of earthly love, the poetry of Rumi is often startlingly modern, partly due to those who have translated his poems from 13th century Persian into many of the ...

Persian poet and mystic Rumi, known for his Sufi-inspired works, emphasized inner peace through detachment from material ...

(RNS) What do the 20th-century American Catholic writers Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara have to do with Rumi, the 13th-century Persian Muslim poet? For Brad Gooch, who has written biographies of ...

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi master, left behind a legacy of profound wisdom. His famous ...

KONYA, Turkey (AP) — To prepare for the ritual ahead, Omer Kilic and his 14-year-old son dress in white robes, drape black cloaks over them and don cone-shaped hats called “sikke.” The tennure robes ...