Rumi: The Fire of Love, the internationally acclaimed novel by Nahal Tajadod, is reviewed in Rain Taxi Review of Books: "This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative historical novel in English about the life and mind of Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th-century Persian mystic who is one of the most widely read poets in North America. Nahal Tajadod confesses that it took her several years to finish this book, during which her mother (a scholar of Persian literature who helped her to understand Rumi) died and Tajaddod gave birth to her first child (after ten years of trying). During those years, her husband would often inquire about her book on Rumi, and in reply Tajadod would quote from one of Rumi’s own poems: “For a certain time the book has been delayed.” One day, Tajadod writes, while breastfeeding her infant daughter, she opened Rumi’s book and found out that that particular poem continues like this: “Because it takes time for blood to become milk.” Its long gestation seems to have paid off, for Rumi: The Fire of Love is a delight to read."
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A new novel based on the life of the legendary Sufi poet Rumi will soon be available for the first time in the U.S. Rumi: The Fire of Love, by Nahal Tajadod, vividly reimagines the story of Rumi, whose poetry and mystic teachings have mesmerized the world for centuries. Tajadod, a renowned translator of Rumi into French, delves into the soul and passion of Rumi in a breathtaking work that is already in production as a major motion picture. Kirkus Reviews notes that Rumi: The Fire of Love conveys the "magic of a teacher and scholar whose passion produced some of the most beautiful poetry ever written."
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Hello,
Rumi, a great sufi mystic, I always keep on searching some or the other thing about him.
For the very first time I came to know about Nahal Tajadod is a renowned traslator of Rumi to French, I am from India, here I came to know about Rumi through the poetry & music albums translated & composed by Anandmurti Gurumaa, an enlightened mystic.