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40 rules of love
Books, Orientalism, Resource March 2, 2021

Reading Elif Shafak (40 Rules of Love and Pseudo-Sufism)

The past decade and a half has seen a growing popularity of authors who write about the East, usually Muslim societies. These writers themselves live in the West, but have taken it upon themselves to explain the East and Islam to others in the West. With one bestseller following another, some writers have become celebrities…

Orientalism, Poetry September 24, 2019

Reading Rumi – The Erasure of Islam from Rumi

Poetry is dead, at least in the West. The Poetry genre barely moves any books each year but one man is an exception – Rumi. But if you have read Rumi in English, chances are high you have read an interpretation of his poetry that has this Muslim saints faith entirely removed.