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The Forty Rules of Love
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is a novel written by the Turkish author Elif Shafak,[1][2][3] Her interest in writing this book was influenced by the degree she received in Gender and Women’s Studies.[4] The book was published in March 2009.[5] It is about the Persian mystic poet Maulana Jalal-Ud-Din, known as Rumi and his companion Shams Tabrizi.[6][7] This book explains how Shams transformed a scholar into a Sufi (mystic) through love.[8] More than 750,000 copies of this book were sold in Turkey and France
A novel enclosed by a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories that coincide each other across two very different cultures and seven intervening centuries.[10] It starts when a housewife, Ella, gets a book called Sweet Blasphemy for an appraisal.[11] This book is about a thirteenth century poet, Shams Tabrizi, who was the spiritual teacher to Rumi.[10] The book presents Shams’s Forty Love Rules at different intervals.[12][13] Sweet Blasphemy was structured in a way to focus on the five elements of nature: Water, Air, Earth, Fire and Void. The chapters in each section revealed a story in line with the nature of each element.[14] The story presented in the novel is based on “love and spirituality that explains what it means to follow your heart”
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