So he began translating his favorite poetry from Islam’s mystical Sufi tradition to send to her. “You know, you should publish this,” she told him after a few years. “It touches my heart ...

Like dust grains in an oyster, the line harboured within him, slowly growing into a full-fledged exploration of Sufi music and poetry. The pearl born of this period is Shahabaz’s new album KEF ...

Kashmir has a rich cultural history of thousands of years and despite modernisation, traditional Sufi poetry, sung by renowned signers of the valley, is getting tremendous response from specific ...

Sorry to ruin this, but when you read poetry by Jalal al-Din Rumi or any other Sufi figure’s poems, the wine is not literal, and Layla is not actually a woman. It is quite a depressing ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi, the Persian scholar and Sufi mystic of the 13th century, whose great poetic works are the Masnavi and the Divan. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

Known as one of the greatest Sufi works in history, his Shah Jo Risalo is a prayer, a cry for the beloved. Written more than 250 years ago, Latif's poetry is deeply rooted in the human experience ...

It is her love for Sufi poetry that glows at the heart of ‘Like Moths to a Flame’, her new novel launched yesterday at the Flower Road Vijitha Yapa Bookshop. Her first book, Monsoons and Potholes, was ...

For decades, Delhi has been the land of Sufi movement and served as a muse to Sufi luminaries like Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Amir Khusrau, Mirza Ghalib, and Dara Shikoh. Celebrating this Sufi ...