The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak

the 40 forty rules of love elif shafak best books summary Is a novel writtenTurkish author by the Elif Shafak,

The book  published  wasMarch in 2009.

It is about Maulana Jalal-Ud-Din, known as Rumi and his companion Shams Tabrizi. This book explains how Shams transformed a scholar into a Sufi through love

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love

The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work. 

 Ella Rubenstein is the forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent.

Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara.

by Ella is mesmerized: Shams's search  his tale of for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming

The successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love.

She is also taken rules with Shams's lessons, or 

That offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions,

and the presence of love in each and every one of us.

As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir­rors her own and

That Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.

the 40 forty rules of love elif shafak best books summary