Today many Muslims are honoring the birthday (Mawlid) of the Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslim communities decorate their streets in a way that would seem familiar to Christmas audiences: lights, family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hollywood screenwriter Dave Franzoni has signed-on to pen the script for an upcoming biopic of Rumi, the 13th century Muslim poet, ...

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 ...

What do the 20th-century American Catholic writers Flannery O'Connor and Frank O'Hara have to do with Rumi, the 13th-century Persian Muslim poet? For Brad Gooch, who has written biographies of all ...

The Carter twins' names may finally be here. JAY-Z and Beyoncé have reportedly given the twins the names Rumi and Sir. (Bustle reached out to their reps for comment, but didn't not receive an ...

This 807-year-old Persian mystic and dervish has a massive following in the US and around the world. Jane Ciabattari explains his enduring influence. The ecstatic poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, ...

(RNS) What do the 20th-century American Catholic writers Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara have to do with Rumi, the 13th-century Persian Muslim poet? For Brad Gooch, who has written biographies of ...