Mehr 8 in the Iranian calendar is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the prominent Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi who needs no introduction when it comes to ...

Dervishes pray during a "Seb-i Arus" ceremony at Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, late Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, to mark the 734th anniversary of the death of Sufi mystic poet Rumi or Mevlana.

The words “Rumi” and “Disney” may not seem to belong in the same sentence -- or even the same location. But they’ll be together Friday night, when Iranian composer Hafez Nazeri presents the world ...

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, commonly known simply as Rumi, was a Persian poet and Sufi master of the 13th century. There is much to be celebrated in the work of this bygone figure, from his lyrical ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

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 ...

To read Rumi is to encounter him—to come face to face with him, and with oneself, through his poetry ... To read Rumi is to encounter him—to come face to face with him, and with oneself, through his ...

Eight centuries after the birth of the famed Persian poet and mystic, the tussle for the cultural legacy of Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi, better known as Rumi, just won't die. Afghanistan, Iran, and ...

David Franzoni, who wrote the script for 2000’s Gladiator, and Stephen Joel Brown have a plan for an exciting new movie: it’s a biopic of the 13th-century Persian poet and philosopher Rumi, who — and ...

Arriving in New York City at the age of 19 to study music, Hafez Nazeri knew he wanted to do big things. Now, little more than a decade later, the young Iranian classical composer is riding high with ...

Eight centuries after the birth of the famed Persian poet and mystic, the tussle for the cultural legacy of Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi, better known as Rumi, just won't die. Afghanistan, Iran, and ...