"I can't imagine a life without Sufism," says a Turkish woman as she describes her commitment to the 13th-century Islamic scholar Mevlana Rumi. "Sufism creates a big difference in your life and you ...

A museum in central Turkey dedicated to the 13th-century Muslim mystic poet Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi hosted a record of nearly 3.5 million visitors in 2019. The Mevlana Museum, located in Konya, ...

ISTANBUL, 9 December (BelTA - Anadolu) - Türkiye’s central Konya province once again became a cultural hub as visitors from around the world gathered to mark the 752nd anniversary of the passing of ...

Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) has visited the Mevlâna Museum in the Turkish city of Konya — a place where the spirit ...

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 ...

KARACHI: Pakistanis are familiar with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi – a 13th century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar – as famous poets and writers in the South Asian nation had inspired by him. “Rumi ...

On the eve of an important date, a special ceremony was arranged in Lahore by Minhajul Quran International, a non-governmental organisation working in over 100 countries around the globe. The ceremony ...

Mevlana Rumi’s famous magnum opus, the Masnavi was inscribed by his disciple Hisamuddin Hassan Chelebi. The title Chelebi is derived from the Turkish word chalab (God), meaning a man of God. Chelebi ...

Konya hosted an international symposium “Mevlana Rumi and Alisher Navoi: The Radiance of Knowledge and Wisdom from Anatolia to Khorasan” on May 5-6. The event was organized in cooperation with the ...

There are many versions of the legendary first encounter between Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi and his spiritual mentor Shams of Tabriz. Most describe the moment as Rumi, the religious scholar, sitting by a ...