It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.” These words, belonging to the 12th-century poet and Sufi Muslim mystic ...

I am a mirror set before your eyes And all who come before my splendor see Themselves, their own unique reality… Though you ...

Among the most profound contributors to this ethos are the Sufi traditions that continue to resonate deeply within the fabric ...

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." This quote comes from one of Rumi's major ...

It was Rumi's followers who ... planets against a background of Sufi music that filled the large Konya Sports and Congress Centre. "A lot of people like his poetry because it comes from the ...

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 ...

After Rumi's death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi's poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith ...