My Name Is Red on Gifts of Intimacy: “In Lami'i Chelebi's Turkish translation of the Persian poet Jami's Gifts of Intimacy, which addresses the stories of the saints...”
The Forty Rules of Love on Yusuf and Zulaikha: “We have read Layla and Majnun, Farhad and Shirin, Yusuf and Zuleikha, The Rose and the Nightingale—stories of lovers who have loved each other against all odds.”