This is Farrukh Dhondy’s third book of translations of Rumi. The first two are ‘Rumi: A New Translation’ and ‘Rumi: A New ...

The “translations” of Rumi that make it to the best-seller list are by various Americans, among them a gentleman called ...

He seems to say that he had encountered Rumi in Damascus, after the death of his father Baha-al-din Valad and before Rumi succeeded him as the Mowlana, the professor-preacher of Konya. In an ...

“There’s a dance when you create the art or you live in a certain way,” Honarvar said. “When you create the art or you live a ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

her calligram paintings are visual representations of Persian poetry. Repeated in Farsi, a line from a Rumi poem, “bypasses the brain and goes right to the heart,” she said. For Honarvar ...

A New Collection' by Farrukh Dhondy will be released on 2 April on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Persian poets transformed the Chigil into a lasting emblem of elegance and charm, forever immortalized in their verses. Rumi, in Divan-i Shams (The Collected Poems of Shams), wrote: "What should ...