What can a modern audience learn about love from a 13th-century mystic? Verdigris Ensemble answers that question with SHAMS, a performance art experience about the transformative power of love. After ...

Mohammad Rezaei, a tourism expert in Khoy, told Mehr news agency that expanding infrastructure and developing cooperation with Turkey would attract more travelers to the city, home to the mausoleum of ...

The relationship between the 13th-century poet Rumi and his mentor Shams Tabrizi lasted just 40 days. But the brief encounter shook his traditional religious upbringing and led to a body of work whose ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

Reza Salehi-Amiri, minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, told reporters during a visit to Shams’s mausoleum in Khoy that investment in the city’s cultural and tourism infrastructure ...

A meeting with a fiery wandering dervish, Shams Tabrizi, was the transformative event in the life of legendary 13th century Sufi mystic, scholar and poet Jalaluddin Rumi. From that time forward, Rumi ...

Broadway Records announced today the release of the world premiere concept recording of RUMI: THE MUSICAL by Dana Al Fardan and Nadim Naaman, about the 13th century philosopher and poet Rumi. The ...

Verdigris Ensemble, Dallas’ innovative choir, is at it again. Now in its sixth season, the choir has previously created and sold a choral NFT for $375,000 and given performances with themes ranging ...

After long, cold, hard days of speculation across the internet, we finally know that the Carters have reportedly named their twins Rumi and Sir Carter. (Elite Daily has reached out to Beyoncé and ...

Verdigris Ensemble artistic director Sam Brukhman conducting "Shams," an audiovisual production set to music inspired by 13th-century poet Rumi. Richard Hill Photography The relationship between the ...