

This was a wonderful revelation Calebâs father shared with him. In Elif Safak's novel The Forty Rules of Love, Shams has a list of rules which he calls the Forty Rules of Love and encourages everyone to live by.What kind of "love" are these rules trying to govern? Donât ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western.

Elif Shafakâs compelling novel, The Forty Rules of Love, follows Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery as she examines her life and the concept of love through Sufi mysticism. The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi Online. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. This friendship turns Rumi's life upside down and eventually brings about Shams' own murder. Turkish novelist Elif Shafak's new novel, The Forty Rules of Love, takes us into the life of a middle-aged Jewish woman from central Massachusetts, who as a reader for a literary agent, has just picked up a copy of a novel by a modern Sufi mystic.
