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100 1  Shafak, Elif,|d1971- 
245 14 The forty rules of love :|b[a novel of Rumi] /|cElif 
       Shafak. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bViking,|c2010. 
300    354, 1 unnumbered page ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Subtitle from cover. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (page [355]). 
520    In present-day Massachusetts, Ella, an unhappy housewife 
       on the cusp of 40, begins reading manuscripts for a 
       literary agency, and soon finds herself exchanging 
       personal e-mails with Aziz Zahara, a wandering Sufi 
       photographer and the author of Ella's first assignment, an
       enthralling novel titled Sweet Blasphemy. It fictionalizes
       the true story of the esteemed thirteenth-century Muslim 
       teacher Rumi, who undergoes a profound transformation when
       the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz, a renegade of 
       strange and unnerving powers, comes to town. The two 
       become inseparable, and as Shams shares the liberating 
       "forty rules of love," Rumi becomes a rebel mystic, the 
       inventor of the "ecstatic dance" of the whirling dervishes,
       and a fervent and cherished poet. Under Aziz's influence, 
       Ella also breaks free of convention and opens herself to 
       cosmic forces. Infused with Sufi mysticism and Rumi's 
       incomparable lyrics, and sweetly human in its embrace of 
       our flaws and failings, Shafak's seductive, shrewd, and 
       affecting novel brilliantly revives the revelations of 
       Shams and Rumi, and daringly illuminates the differences 
       between religion and spirituality, censure and compassion,
       fear and love of life in our own violent world. 
600 00 Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,|cMaulana,|d1207-1273|vFiction. 
650  0 Housewives|vFiction. 
650  0 Jewish women|vFiction. 
650  0 Sufis|vFiction. 
650  0 Sufism|vFiction. 
650  0 Mevleviyeh|vFiction. 
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