Rumi: A world poet Lately there has been an increase in the number of scholars and translators of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi. Brad Gooch, Jane Ciabattari, Prof. Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Murat Umut İnan ...

The skirts of whirling dervishes twirl in a symphony of disco colours celebrating mystic Sufi poet Rumi at a cultural centre in central Turkey's Konya. Every year, the "Seb-i Arus" ("Wedding Night ...

Then it all changed. At the start of the 20th century, an Englishman named RA Nicholson translated Rumi’s work into English. Then, 50 years later, American poet Coleman Barks re-imagined it.