rumi roaming

contemporary engagements and interventions

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Pub Date Apr 01 2025 | Archive Date Apr 30 2025

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rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions originates in the desire to bring a decolonial Rumi-ness to our present contexts and communities. Living in pandemic isolation, many of us drew solace from Rumi, the 13th century Sufi poet-sage. While Rumi is a best-selling poet in North America, the boundary-breaking and situated nature of his work is often lost in colonial appropriations and (mis)translations. rumi roaming juxtaposes new translations of some of Rumi’s ghazals with contemporary creative non-fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, photo essays, and videos that engage with his work through decolonial reflections on language, human connections, place, and spirituality.

Inspired by Rumi’s own early trajectory across Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey and the spiritual urgings of his ghazals, curator and editor Gita Hashemi draws attention to diverse geographies of Rumi’s circulation and brings together contributors from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines to intervene in the processes of cultural and spiritual appropriation and depoliticization of East-to-West translation.

rumi roaming invites us to think about rumi in small caps and as a dynamic cross-cultural force within contemporary contexts of translingual poetics and translation politics, global displacement and relation to land and water, Indigenous language revitalization and diasporic language reclamation, and interrogations of spirituality, healing, and social justice.

rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions originates in the desire to bring a decolonial Rumi-ness to our present contexts and communities. Living in pandemic isolation, many of us...


A Note From the Publisher

Contributors include Academics and authors from across Canada and the US

Contributors include Academics and authors from across Canada and the US


Advance Praise

"Seamlessly weaving modern renditions of Rumi's ghazals with a tapestry of contemporary creative nonfiction, melodious poetry, scholarly musings, immersive photo essays, and haunting videos, this collection addresses a void I've perennially sensed in my engagements with Rumi's diverse oeuvre, from poetic verses to visual tapestries."— Zainub Verjee, Member of the Order of Canada

"This multi-media volume is far more sophisticated and nuanced in its vision of Rumi [...] rumi roaming provides a much richer and more creative re-reading of Rumi than has been previously available.— Jawid Mojaddedi, professor of religion at Rutgers University and translator of The Masnavi for Oxford World's Classics

"rumi roaming masterfully shines a light on the complex and contradictory legacies of Rumi both past and present, and inevitably, the future. Artists, scholars, and activists bring themselves to the figure of Rumi and grapple with the various dimensions of Rumi's life, social context, and literary outputs, especially as it has interjected their lives, such as his poetry that evoked love and longing, sexist, and patriarchal stories, and calls for revolution."— M. Shobhana Xavier, professor of religion and diaspora at Queen's University and author of The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada

"Seamlessly weaving modern renditions of Rumi's ghazals with a tapestry of contemporary creative nonfiction, melodious poetry, scholarly musings, immersive photo essays, and haunting videos, this...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781771839709
PRICE CA$39.95 (CAD)
PAGES 200

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