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23 unusual facts about Rumi


Adam Plack

He has participated in a number of cross-cultural music projects, including several recordings of meditation music with NY Times best-selling philosopher Deepak Chopra, including A Gift of Love (1998), which consists of translations of the poems of Rumi.

Al-Rumi

Rûm, a medieval Islamic designation of various areas in Christendom

Rumi, Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic

Ameen Faheem

"I have always been fond of the poetry of Maulana Rumi, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, and Sachal Sarmast. Their poetry has left a deep impact on my life. I have learned from them (Poets) to be loyal, to be loved, in good or rainy days"

Anandmurti Gurumaa

Gurumaa conducted series of discourses on various spiritual texts of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, budhists like Bhagavad Gita, japji sahib, rehraas sahib, jaap sahib of Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Gita, Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatkam and Bhaja Govindam, Narada Bhakti Sutra and poetries of sufi mystics like Baba Bulle Shah, baba farid and Rumi.

Gurumaa has translated the Sufi love poems of the Turkish Sufi dervish Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi into the Hindi language, for the first time in India.

Christian Quintin

“His natural universe is a place of ecstasy, infinite wonder and exquisite sensibility, intensely felt, like the ethereal poetry of Rilke and Rumi,” wrote Northern California journalist Elisabeth Sherwin.

Elif Şafak

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi, 368 pp, 2010, Viking Adult, ISBN 0-670-02145-8

Şafak's novel The Forty Rules of Love focused on love in the light of Rumi and Shams of Tabriz.

Gündüz Tekin Onay

After UNESCO declared 2007 as Year of Rumi, he was achieved the clemency and example behaviour prize by Turkish Football Coaches Association.

Kabir Helminski

He has translated many volumes of Sufi literature, including many works of Rumi, and is the author of two books on Sufism: Living Presence and The Knowing Heart.

Kjersti Alveberg

TV producer Jannike Falk certainly has contributed to the success of Kjersti Alveberg's many dance films, well worth mentioning is "Who is the one?"/"Bønn" (1996) to new music by Jan Garbarek and poems by Rumi.

Lee Abramson

His recent creations are classified as Rumi music, where he sets Rumi poetry to music.

Maktubat

Makatib (Maktubat al-Rabbani), the book containing Rumi's letters to his disciples, family members, and men of state and of influence

Nader Khalili

Khalili wrote books on his architectural philosophy & techniques as well as translations of poetry from Rumi, the poet he considered instrumental in his design inspiration.

Ömür Kınay

Her 3 minutes and 20 second short film, Kün ("To Be"), about Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi and the seven counsels of Mevlana won three awards, including the Golden Cocoon Award.

Ramona Amiri

Her favourite motto is: "Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching" which was borrowed from the famous Persian poet Rumi.

Spencer Herr

His interest in religion can be seen in two of his older series based on Abraham's Covenant and the poetry of 13th century Persian mystic Rumi.

Sufi rock

It is mostly based on the poetry of famous sufi poets like Rumi, Hafez, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah and even Kabir and is mostly sung in languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian and Turkish.

Suhayb ar-Rumi

His captors became relaxed and Sohaib quietly armed himself, readied a mount and headed for Medina.

When Muhammad gave permission for his followers to migrate to Medina in 622, Sohaib resolved to accompany Muhammad and Abu Bakr, but the Quraish discovered his intentions and placed guards over him to prevent him from leaving Mecca and taking the wealth he had acquired through trade.

The Kominas

The first Kominas' song ever released was "Rumi was a Homo (But Wahhaj Is a Fag)", by the website Muslim Wake Up! in response to then recent homophobic comments made by the Imam Siraj Wahhaj.

William Chittick

He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, Shi'ism, and Islamic cosmology.


Ahmad Dhani

They have 3 children from their marriage of which Dhani named after Islamic prominent Sufi leader whom he admires, namely Ahmad Al Gazali, El Jalaluddin Rumi, and Ahmad Abdul Qodir Jaelani.

Altaf Mahmud

On July 18, 2013 Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was found guilty and received life sentence on the charge related to the killing of Rumi along with Badi, Jewel, Azad and Altaf Mahmud at the army camp set up in Nakhalpara, Dhaka, during the Liberation War.

Ba 'Alawiyya

In the early 4th Century Hijri at 318 H, Sayyid Ahmad al-Muhaajir bin Isa ar-Rumi bin Muhammad al-Naqib bin Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq migrated from Basrah, Iraq first to Mecca and Medina, and then to Hadhramout, to avoid the chaos then prevalent in the Abbassid Caliphate, where descendants of Muhammad were continuously being suspected of arson and revolt against the caliph.

Coleman Barks

Barks bases his paraphrases entirely on other English translations of Rumi which include renderings by John Moyne and Reynold A. Nicholson.

The only credential I have for working on Rumi's poetry is my meeting with my Sufi teacher, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.

Davood Azad

In his recent work, "The Divan of Rumi & Bach", Davod Azad joins Iranian Traditional music with Bach's famous melodies.

Elif Şafak

Their unusual story is set against a historical background that narrates the remarkable spiritual bond between Rumi and Shams of Tabriz.

Fondmetal

Instead, Gabriele Rumi commissioned Sergio Rinland from Astauto to design a new machine late in December 1991.

Geeta Vadhera

Geeta Vadhera's "Jogia Dhoop" series was exhibited first in 2003 and comprises calligraphic paintings based on the writings of the Sufi saints—Rumi, Bulleh Shah, Kabir, Hazrat Shah Niaz, and Hazrat Shah Taaji amongst others.

Islamic music

Those who saw the permissibility of music include Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Ibn al-Qaisarani, Ibn Sina, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Rumi, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn Hazm.

Jahanara Imam

In 1960 she gave up her job as Head Mistress to concentrate on bringing up her two sons Rumi and Jami born in 1952 and 1954 respectively.

Nur Artıran

Nur Artiran, Sheikha Nur or "Sheikha Noor" is the current Sufi Master of the Mevlevi Sufi Order which was founded by Rumi.

Persianate society

Apart from Ferdowsi, Rumi, Abu Ali Sina, Al-Biruni, Unsuri Balkhi, Farrukhi Sistani, Sanayi Ghaznawi and Abu Sahl Testari were among the great Iranian polymaths and poets of the period, supported by the Ghazanavids.

Rumi Tama filmography


Rumi Tama's first Apartment Wife, taking over from Junko Miyashita as the 4th star of the series.

Tourism in Turkey

Lots of cultural attractions elsewhere in the country include the sites of Ephesus, Troy, Pergamon, House of the Virgin Mary, Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Trabzon (where one of the oldest monasteries is the Sümela Monastery), Konya (where the poet Rumi had spent most of his life), Didyma, Church of Antioch, religious places in Mardin (such as Deyrülzafarân Monastery), and the ruined cities and landscapes of Cappadocia.