The most eloquent and most lovable, the wisest and most humane writer in the “Islamic Sufi tradition” So writes “professor Annemarie Schimmel” about Jalal-ud-din Rumi in her preface to the “Kingdom of Joy”, a beautiful colorful book, in which the wise, charming and funny stories of Rumi are captured and retold in an elegant and simple manner for the young reader. Underlying the diverse stories found in the “Mathnawi” ranging from a bald parrot to a croaky singer, from hairy camels in Balkh to noisy frogs in Konya is the key word for love. For Rumi, love is the source of universe. Rumi’s life was devoted to the love of God./ Printed at U.K
