One of the most celebrated poets Islamic civilization has produced, and who has later been rediscovered in the Western world, is Jalal al-Din Rumi. Click on the attached article, Mawlana – love as spiritual fuel, and gain insight into Rumi’s life and reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West.
Is there any subject more worn out and clichéd than love?
Literary historians refer to the period from the late 1700s to the first half of the 1800s
in Europe as Romanticism. Until then, reason had been dominant and stood
central among artists and the intellectual elite.