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An online publication of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Rumi

Rūmī’s Book Seven of the Mathnawī: Intra-Sufi Debates in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire

By Eliza Tasbihi  //  March 27, 2020

Ottoman Sufis were often criticized for engaging in bidʿa or innovative interpretations of Islamic texts by their orthodox opponents, such as the Qāḍīzādeh ʿulamā’.  In their writings, members of the Qāḍīzādeh ʿulamā’ subjected Sufi treatises…

A Translation, Transliteration, and Commentary on Muhammad Iqbal’s “Jibreel-o Iblees”

By Asad Dandia  //  July 30, 2019August 12, 2019

Preface Two of the highest modes of expression developed by humankind are poetry and philosophy. The poet speaks to us through verse, and the philosopher through prose, each one inviting us into their realm of…

[Book Review] Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition by Omid Safi | Reviewed by Cyrus Ali Zargar. 

By Cyrus Ali Zargar  //  December 6, 2018January 15, 2019

Omid Safi. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018). 284 pages. $25.00 hardcover | Reviewed by Cyrus Zargar.  Omid Safi’s Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic…

From The Archives: VIDEO – “An Evening with Rumi”

By Maydan Editors  //  October 10, 2016October 25, 2016

  In partnership with George Mason’s Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the School of Music, the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies presents a reading of Rumi’s poetry in its original Persian…

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