TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shafak,Elif
TI  - The forty rules of love: [a novel of Rumi] 
SN  - 9780143118527
AV  - PS3619.H328 F67 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,
KW  - Housewives
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Sufis
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Mevleviyeh
KW  - fast
KW  - Homemakers
KW  - sears
KW  - Dervishes
N1  - Subtitle from cover; Includes bibliographical references (page 355)
N2  - Traces the parallel stories of a present day Massachusetts, unhappily married professional reader, Ella Rubinstein's inspiration of the story of Shams of Tabriz, and her own transformation, and, the 13th-century transformation of a successful but unhappy cleric, Rumi, into a mystic and poet. Shafik blends the East and the West, past and present, and presents an account of how love works in the world
ER  -