The Forty Rules of Love

The book "The Forty Rules of Love" by the novelist Elif Shafak, where Elif Shafak narrates the forty rules of love through mentioning two parallel stories, one in the thirteenth century and the other in the contemporary era. As for the one set in the contemporary era, it tells the story of a miserable wife in her life and marriage who reads a novel and is captivated by concepts of ancient philosophy, which influence her life and turn it upside down. The other story in the thirteenth century revolves around a confrontation between Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Tabrizi and how they together embodied the message of eternal love poetry. The book "The Forty Rules of Love" was translated by Mohamed Darwish and republished in 2021 by Dar Al-Adab.