Detail: Time ~ 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM (Doors 6.30pm)

Poetry has been the most powerful vehicle for conveying Sufi ideas, from the early flowering of Mystical Islam in Baghdad to the later heights that it reached through Jalaluddin Rumi (d.1273) and Jami (d.1492) in Turkey and Iran. Even to this day, these poems and verses are on the lips of Muslims in many parts of the world, regularly sung in sama and qawwali gatherings in India, Pakistan and around the globe. Mahmood Jamal considers the contribution made by Sufi poets to Islamic humanism and to world culture and civilization, and reads a beautiful selection of verse from the 8th to the 20th centuries CE.

Mahmood Jamal is a poet and author.

Tickets £10, Asia House Friends and concessions £5