The Forty Rules of Love is a novel written by Turkish author Elif Shafak. The book was published in March 2009. It is about Mawlana Jalal-Ud-Din, known as Rumi and his companion Shams Tabrizi. This book explains how Shams transformed a scholar into a Sufi (mystic) through love. More than 750,000 copies of this book were sold in Turkey and France
