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The Forty Rules of Love
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In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara.
Ella is mesmerized by Zahara's tale of Shams of Tabriz's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.
The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, Shams, the whirling dervish—that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work.
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara.
Ella is mesmerized by Zahara's tale of Shams of Tabriz's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.
The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, Shams, the whirling dervish—that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work.
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“A great book that says about Love through Sufism... The 7 Stages of Love are clearly defined which are Hubb (attraction), Uns (infatuation), Ishq (Love), Aqeedat (Faith), Ibadat (Worship), Junoon (Madness), Maut (Death). Also the story portrayed the view point of every character that is engaged in this book like the character Ella, Rumi, Shams of Tabriz, Desert Rose the Harlot, Hasan the Begger, Suleiman the Drunk, Aladdin, Kerra, Kimya, Baybars the Warrior, Sultan Walad, and so on.
A sentence which really caught in my mind other than the 40 rules of Love is:- If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough”rosie
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“beauuuutiful spiritual journey on finding Love and Oneness through Sufism. mystical and dreamy.
buku kedua elif shafak yang kubaca dan aku suka cara beliau bercerita lewat banyak POV tokoh-tokohnya, it adds richness and complexity to the story🫶🏽 and what i love more is that the characters here are very distinctive and humane in terms that i have disagreement against them or they own a particular trait that i don't like. aku mau kasih 5 bintang tapi tema infidelity yang ada di dalamnya just doesn't sit right with me.”
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About Elif Shafak
ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the U.S. and the UK. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.
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