Rumi’s legacy draws visitors to Türkiye on his death anniversary
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL DEC 09, 2022 – 2:39 PM GMT+3 Whirling dervishes perform sema in Konya, central Türkiye, Dec. 8, 2022. (AA Photo) Türkiye marks the 749th anniversary of the […]
Remembering Rumi: How he inspired the East and the West
BY AMIR SÜLEYMAN SEP 30, 2021 – DAILY SABAH Whirling Dervishes take part in a Sama ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. […]
The misrepresentation of Rumi
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page. By Muhammad Mujtaba Iqbal 10:09 PM | January 16, 2022 A poet, faqih, scholar, theologian, […]
Commemorating Rumi: Islamic scholar, poet and mystic
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS DEC 24, 2021 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 […]
Love, passion, God: Navigating Konya during Rumi’s anniversary
BY YASEMIN ÇELEBI PAÇALIOĞLU DEC 10, 2021 – 11:52 AM GMT+3Great view of Mevlana Square in Konya, Turkey. (Shutterstock Photo) Every year the world flocks to the city of Konya, […]
Ceremonies commemorating Rumi set to start in Turkey’s Konya
BY ANADOLU AGENCY KONYA DEC 06, 2021 – 11:22 PM GMT+3The shrine of Rumi in central Konya province comes to the forefront with its distinctive green-tiled cylindrical dome. (Sabah / Archive) […]
Former priest finds love for Rumi, Islam in Turkey’s Konya
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL TURKEY SEP 23, 2021 3:27 PM GMT+3Ismail Fenter (R) prays along with Nadir Karnıbüyük in Konya, central Turkey, Sept. 23, 2021. (AA Photo) Ismail Fenter has been in search […]
Kabul to rebuild birthplace of famous poet Rumi
This photograph taken on June 19, 2016, shows the ruins of the house of Muslim mystic and poet Rumi in Balkh, northern Afghanistan. (AFP/File) Short Url https://arab.news/jyzq $7m mosque project […]
Exploring the Islamic pearl of central Anatolia, city of Rumi: Konya
BY ARGUN KONUK TRAVEL DEC 11, 2020 The central square of the old town of Konya with the Mevlana Museum in the background and Selimiye Mosque at night. (Shutterstock Photo) […]
Sahar Esfandiari / Reclaiming Rumi: How Islam was erased from the Persian poet’s work
Sahar Esfandiari A new online campaign, Rumi Was Muslim, seeks to rectify the whitewashing and mistranslations of the renowned 13th-century Persian poet and Muslim scholar. Founded by researchers and translators Sharghzadeh and Zirrar, […]
Rumi and his holistic human rights theory
ERGIN ERGÜL Published Human rights, although largely described as a modern term, are indeed as old as the history of mankind. The age we live has been deemed the […]
An old story: Looking for a Muslim Voltaire
İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 The fact that Muslims don’t have a Voltaire doesn’t mean that they know nothing about critical reasoning, just like the fact that the West doesn’t have […]
America’s Best-Selling Poet was a Muslim: And His Name Was Muhammad
11/13/2017 This piece was written by Bahar Davary, an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhī (1207-1273), better known as Rumi, is the […]
Speaking the language of the heart in an age of lost meaning
İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 Articles COLUMNS The age of uncertainty and humility COLUMNS The Muslim world must wake up from its slumber COLUMNS Turkey-EU relations: Is a reset possible? According to Ethnologue, an online resource on world languages, there are more than 7,000 living languages. Some are […]
Madonna set to visit Konya, adopted home of Sufi mystic
Source: DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Her interest in Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic who settled in Turkey, brings international pop star Madonna to the mystic’s adopted home, a Turkish […]
What Trump and His Supporters Can Learn From Muslim Leaders
By Craig Considine CHARLES PHELPS CUSHING/CLASSICSTOCK VIA GETTY IMAGES Support for Donald Trump is surging across the United States. This is particularly troubling because in recent weeks, he has called for banning Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, spying on Muslims, making Muslims carry ID badges, and a few other […]
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Rumi
There’s more to this Sufi mystic than meets the eye. 01/27/2017 Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor More than seven centuries after his death, Rumi’s poetry still has the capacity to fascinate his readers. The 13th century Sufi theologian and poet Jalal al-Din Mohammad Rumi is one America’s best-selling poets. His […]
Aleppo-educated Rumi, Messiah missing to an extremist world
October 1, 2016 September 30 was the birth anniversary of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi master born in 1207, and the Rumi Day named in his honor as a globally acclaimed poet. Born in Balkh, then part of eastern Iran but now in Afghanistan, Rumi went to […]
Remembering Rumi
İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 Remembering Rumi today can go a long way in healing many of the spiritual wounds that we have inflicted upon ourselves. His teachings can liberate us from […]
Finding Joy in the Dust of Snow – New Year Resolution
Author: Atif Munawar Mir Popular New Year resolutions such as losing weight, taking a trip, finding a better job, and giving up a bad habit are worth our time and […]