• A blonde woman, dressed in a fur coat and red hat, stands at a shopping counter with a cigarette in her mouth, before a brunette woman wearing a Santa hat
Mawlawi complex, tomb of Rumi, Konya, Turkey, photo John Renard

Rumi – A Life in Pictures

In this interview, John Renard, author of Rumi: A Life in Pictures (out now from the Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art series), discusses his new book, which studies illustrated 16th-century Ottoman manuscripts of a major hagiography of Rumi and his…