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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Rumi -800 years old today!

by Barney on 30 September 2007

Today is the 800th anniversary of the birth of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s birth in Balkh (in present-day Afghanistan). Charles Haviland of the BBC went to Balkh to find out if Rumi’s influence is still alive there, as he tells in this story.
Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha’i Faith, quotes from Rumi’s Mathnavi in His mystical work [...]

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