The Forty Rules of Love"A novel within a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories that mirror each other across two very different cultures and seven intervening centuries."It starts when a housewife, Ella, gets a book called Sweet Blasphemy for an appraisalThis book is about a thirteenth century poet, Rumi, and his spiritual teacher, Shams. The book presents Shams's Forty Love Rules at different intervalsSweet Blasphemy was structured in a way to focus on