Ibrahim Gamard is a California-based sheikh of the Sufi Mevlevi order and has spent his life translating the poetry of the 13th-century Sufi mystic, Rumi. Murtazali Dugrichilov of RFE/RL's North ...

During the last decades of his life, the Persian poet Rumi was surrounded by news of terrorism, just as we are eight centuries later. Those were the days of Mongol invasions that swept past the ...

Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic, highlights the irony of valuing material possessions over one's own soul. He emphasizes ...

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 ...

Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition. Nooraee, director of the Nimatullahi Sufi ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Leilat El-Tagali El-Mawlawy (The Night of Mevlevi Transfiguration), Hussein Soliman, head of the Egyptian Mevlevi Order, creates a sacred atmosphere. He invites everyone to explore their inner ...