Rumi Returning: The Triumph of Divine Passion
The biography of Rumi and how it relates to his poetry. "Rumi Returning" is the popular PBS biography of the great Sufi poet of Love. Filmed on location at Rumi's shrine in Konya, Turkey, and showing…
Rumi Returning: The Triumph of Divine Passion
The biography of Rumi and how it relates to his poetry. "Rumi Returning" is the popular PBS biography of the great Sufi poet of Love. Filmed on location at Rumi's shrine in Konya, Turkey, and showing the magnificent mosques, architecture, ruins and gardens of Turkey. Featuring the ecstatic dance ritual of the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey that Rumi inspired. Commentary is by the great Rumi interpreter Coleman Barks, Islamic scholar Dr. Akbar Ahmed, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey and a Sufi dervish in Konya, Uzeyir Ozyurt. —Cynthia Lukas, Producer-Writer, "Rumi Returning"
Rumi Returning: The Triumph of Divine Passion
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The biography of Rumi and how it relates to his poetry. "Rumi Returning" is the popular PBS biography of the great Sufi poet of Love. Filmed on location at Rumi's shrine in Konya, Turkey, and showing the magnificent mosques, architecture, ruins and gardens of Turkey.
Featuring the ecstatic dance ritual of the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey that Rumi inspired. Commentary is by the great Rumi interpreter Coleman Barks, Islamic scholar Dr. Akbar Ahmed, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey and a Sufi dervish in Konya, Uzeyir Ozyurt.
—Cynthia Lukas, Producer-Writer, "Rumi Returning".