RUMI’S DAUGHTER

                                                                                       By Muriel Maufroy

Rumi's Daughter is both a delightful and informative novel. It is written by Muriel Maufroy who is a French-born author and ex-journalist for the BBC World Service. Partly imagined and partly factual, it narrates the life of Kimya, the adopted daughter of Maulana Jalalud-Din Rumi (1207-1273) who is known today both for his mystical love poetry written to his beloved God and the Sufi Order of the Whirling Dervishes founded after his death.

Maulana Rumi is 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 suspicious man called Shams Tabraiz. Moreover Rumi brought an adopted daughter into his family, and was troubled when Shams finally disappeared.