www.tehrantomes.com Forty contemporary poets of Iran will leave for Turkey to attend the ceremony of the death anniversary of the great Persian poet and mystic Molana Jalal al-Din Rumi on Dec. 17 at his shrine in Konya.
Abdoljabbar Kakaii, Saber Emami, Rahmat Haqqipur, Abdolreza Rezaiinia, Abbas Baratipur, Abolqasem Hosseinjani, Morteza Nurbakhsh, Reza Esmaeili, and Alireza Bahrami are some of the poets who will go on the trip organized by the Music and Poetry Office of the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry.
The group also intends to develop relations with Turkish poets, discuss the necessity of establishing a union for the Islamic world’s literature with the aim of supporting Muslim poets and introducing Iranian literature.
Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh (a city of Khorasan Province at that time and now a part of Afghanistan) and died in 1273 in Konya (now in Turkey). His birthplace and native tongue indicate a Persian heritage.
He also wrote his poetry in Persian and his works are widely read in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Turkey. He lived most of his life and produced his works under the Seljuk Empire.
Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. He has had a significant influence on both Persian and Turkish literature throughout the centuries.
His poems have been translated into many of the world's languages and have appeared in various formats.
The year 2007 has been designated by the UNESCO as “Year of Rumi” to mark the 800th birthday anniversary of the eminent philosopher. |