For over centuries, Kashmir’s Sufi music maestros have regaled audiences in Kashmir with the poetry of 13th century poet and Islamic scholar Rumi, buried in the Turkish city of Konya.

He died April 21, 1938, in Lahore. Literary accomplishments Iqbal produced works in Persian and Urdu languages. Of his 12,000 verses of poetry, about 7,000 verses are in Persian.

KARACHI: For national poet Muhammad Iqbal's 145th birth anniversary on Tuesday, observers are highlighting the influence of Maulana Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar.Born ...

Rumi’s work is a long narrative poem in rhyming couplets, which is what a masnavi is, as against a short love poem in rhyming, but unrelated couplets, which make up a ghazal. Rumi’s Masnavi is ...

The session was held as part of AKU’s 6sf lecture series where Dr Najam, a long-time academician, promoted his newly published book Bishnau (Listen), which is based on Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi ...

Maulana Hali’s ‘Muqaddama-i-sher-o-shaeri’ is the first treatise in Urdu on the art and principles of literary criticism, but it says nothing of the naat poetry.

Ms Hussain talked about the first encounter between Rumi and Shams. She said Maulana Rumi was sitting near a pool and teaching some students when the two first met. Shams pointed to the books and ...

It was a collection of poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, translated by Coleman Barks. “It kind of changed my life,” Martin said later, in an interview.

Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...