Rumi’s Daughter

Description

Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry. Not much is known about his life except that he lived in thirteenth-century Anatolia (now Turkey), had a great spiritual friendship with a wild man called Shams, brought an adopted daughter into his family, and was distraught when Shams finally disappeared.

Rumi’s Daughter is the delightful novel about Kimya, the girl who was sent from her rural village to live in Rumi’s home. She already had mystical tendencies, and learned a great deal under Rumi’s tutelage. Eventually she married Shams, an unusual husband, almost totally absorbed by his longings for God. Their marriage was fiery and different and, in the end, dissolved by Kimya’s death – after which Shams vanished.

Rumi’s Daughter tells Kimya’s story with great charm and tenderness. Well written and thought-provoking, it is sure to draw comparison with Paolho Coelho’s The Alchemist, and also to add something fresh and new to what is so far known about Rumi.

Reviews

“An intriguing, passionate story, beautifully and simply told and full of extraordinary wisdom.” – Sunday Telegraph

“An exquisite evocation of a young woman’s spiritual awakening- A poetic gift of the creative imagination as translucent and refreshing as water from a mountain stream.” – Anne Baring, co-author, The Myth of the Goddess

“A beautiful little book that speaks to the soul. The world of Rumi and Shams is seen through the eyes of a girl, full of simple wonder, wisdom and the mysterious turning of the heart. This story resonates with the sacred child and mystic in each of us.” – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, author of Sufism, The Transformation of the Heart

Author Biography

Muriel Maufroy was born and brought up in France but writes in English. She has lived most of her life in the US and England, where she worked for the BBC as a radio journalist for many years.

However, due to her involvement in Sufism, her interests have turned increasingly towards the Middle East. She went several times to Turkey and Iran and, at more peaceful times, to Syria and Jordan. She also obtained a 1st class degree in Persian from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Her two books: Breathing Truth, a book of quotations of Rumi, and Rumi’s Daughter, a novel based on the life of the great Sufi poet, have been very successful (the latest is in nine translation, unfortunately not in French!)

Her latest novel, The Garden of Hafez has just become an Ebook and is available on Amazon. It is the story of David, an English history professor, who happens to be in Iran just before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, where he finds himself caught up in the mysterious world of the Sufis and the political upheavals. Through a bewildering journey – at times he falls back into the fourteenth century where he meets the poet Hafez – from a typically sceptical Westerner, he becomes a much wiser and happier man.