About this Event
"Rumi Returning: The Triumph of Divine Passion" documentary and discussion with Producer Kell Kearns. An 800-year old Sufi poet from Turkey who composed in Farsi, Rumi is the best-selling poet in the United States and inspires us to a god-intoxicated love of the Divine. "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. Producer Kell Kearns will share the film and host a discussion afterward about his experiences with this film, insights about Rumi and Love, answer your questions and invite your thoughts and questions.
Watch the trailer here: http://santafefilmfestival.com/index/film/rumi-returning-the-triumph-of-divine-passion/
More info: https://hojja-nusreddin.livejournal.com/1888316.html
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CSLDallas, A Center for Spiritual Living, 4801 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, United States
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