{"id":6148,"date":"2023-12-19T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:45:10","slug":"rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/12\/19\/rumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a respite from the news (for those who can get away), here&#8217;s an interesting piece about Rumi, which has some reference to his presence on the internet (which I discuss in my next book). The quality of \u2018translations\u2018 is significant. Omid Safi makes some important points in this article. I&#8217;m hoping to make it back to Konya next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2023\/12\/17\/a-tale-of-two-rumis-of-the-east-and-of-the-west\">Indlieb Farazi Saber, Al Jazeera, A tale of two Rumis \u2013 of the East and of the West, 17 Dec 2023 <\/a> &#8220;Seven hundred and fifty years after his death, the celebrated Persian thinker remains a best-selling poet in the West, revered as an Islamic dervish in the East, while his sagacious thoughts rule the internet.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a respite from the news (for those who can get away), here&#8217;s an interesting piece about Rumi, which has some reference to his presence on the internet (which I discuss in my next book). The quality of \u2018translations\u2018 is significant. Omid Safi makes some important points in this article. I&#8217;m hoping to make it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[626,93,160,72],"tags":[624,714,101],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persian","category-sufism","category-turkey","category-turkey-internet","tag-persian","tag-poetry","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}