#Masnavi

Persian Poetics

Meet Coleman Barks, the man responsible for nearly every 'Rumi quote' you've seen. Coleman hasn't studied Islam, Sufism, or Persian in academia or traditional settings, he doesn't even know Persian!

Today’s public service announcement: When you see a poem or saying attributed to #Rumi in which he is reported as saying: “I am not a Muslim”, or “I belong to

Persian Poetics

Thread: The Orientalizing of Moulana RumiMany of you may be familiar with the 'Rumi quotes' that circulate the internet. What if I told you the vast majority of them are

A lot of discussions recently about works that present an inaccurate view of Islamic spirituality. I wanted to share a thread on accessible and accurate English primary sources on #Sufis,

A Thread on Imam Ali. Since these day overlap with the anniversary of #ImamAli’s martyrdom, I thought it was a good time to offer a thread on his significance in

A thread on why 99.9% of Hafez quotes on the internet are… fake. Including the ones you probably like. A thread on #Hafiz #Hafez, or I should say #FakeHafez.

A thread on #IbnArabi in #SouthAsia people consider the main conduit to be the #Chishti Sufis and their ethical principle of #sulh_e_kull which is assumed to be an expression of

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

The Seljuk Sultan's Courtier Disturbs Rūmī's Visit to his Father's GraveTarjuma-i Thawāqib-i manāqib ("A Translation of Stars of the Legend") is a manuscript translated into Turkish from Persian (Baghdad, 1590).Thr

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Fascism: Italian term meaning "a bundle of sticks", from the Latin word fasces. This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as fasci. Mussolini's own account, the