Paolo Coelho tells Syria’s Forward Magazine he is influenced by mystical Islam brewing in Syria
Sunday, April 12, 2009 By Maryam
“No doubt about it. During my journey and my encounter with Sufism, the books I had read by Paulo’s came to my mind a few times, not the stories themselves but the way he writes them. When I came back and started to use the internet to find articles about Sufism, the more I read the more I felt he has a Sufi heart and soul. And… I love that…”
Here is an article where he tells Forward Magazine how this mysticism has influenced his works.
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