The Forty Rules of Love by the famous Turkish writer Elif Afak She was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1971, and she won many literary prizes and is one of the most read Turkish novelists. It deals with the novel (The Forty Commanders). And love between East and West, between the past and the present, the spiritual and the mundane, all through telling the story of Jalal al-Din al-Rumi and Shams Al. Tabrizi