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THE ERASURE OF ISLAM FROM THE POETRY OF RUMI (Part Two)

The erasure of Islam from Rumi’s poetry started long before Coldplay got involved. Omid Safi, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Duke University, says that it was in the Victorian period that readers in the West began to uncouple mystical poetry from its Islamic roots. Translators and theologians of the time could […]

Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual operates or trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefits or for the mind to simply acknowledge its content without becoming identified with that content,or as an end in itself.The term meditation refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques […]

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