The daughter of the caliph eventually turned against Ibn Zaydun, and he was exiled, Sells said. “You can feel the exile in his poetry as well as the longing and love,” he said. Sells read aloud ...

Love was a key theme in early classical Arabic poetry (MEE) By Nadda Osman , Mohamad Elaasar and A Alaa Published date: 14 March 2023 11:12 GMT | Last update: 2 years 1 month ago ...

(RNS) — Omid Safi's new book 'Radical Love' offers a reminder to Muslims and non-Muslims alike: You can't divorce Rumi's mystical poetry from Islam.

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how ...

The anthology “We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers,” which appears to be the first of its kind in English, could not be more refreshing. Given stubborn Western stereotypes ...