From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend ...

Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America. Rumi was born...

Over the plains of Armenia towers Mount Ararat, on which, the Bible states, Noah's Ark rested after the flood. Here also is the traditional site of the Garden of Eden, and the four rivers that Genesis describes as rising in the Garden still flow t...

This collection spanning a half century of writing gives a front row seat to a world in turmoil—from the forbidding valleys and mountains of Waziristan in the tribal areas of Pakistan to the think tanks and halls of power in Washington, DC...

Book of the Book in the Danish press "Man is a book, a reader or a writing or possibly doesn't exist at all. Instead man is a universe that is readable and the author of life itself. Almost as with Kierkegaard, where existence is written or w...

Featuring the journey of life, from virtue to guilt, from idealism to the thick air of here and now, Songs and Sonnets of Reminiscence are pale faces that looked over the author's shoulders, are yesterdays walking in the feet of today. Wisam Kha...

Three masterpieces of Islamic devotional poetry in their cultural contexts

"You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your own giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation." "And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gath...

Illustrating the border between India and Pakistan both literally and metaphorically, this debut collection of poetry explores the dimensions of race and analyzes media depictions of the war on terror. Combining narrative and verse in an unpre...

The Lost Words of the Sufi Master and Father of RumiBahauddin, Rumi's father, was not only a major force in the development of Islamic spirituality, but also a deeply influential force in his son's life. In this, the first ever substantial English...