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13th century Persian poet still inspires
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2007/10/12 - 18:18.
1201 CE to 1300 CE | Fine Arts | Islam | Middle Eastern
The poetic and the spiritual alike are celebrating the 800th anniversary of the birth of Sufi poet Rumi who "still inspires with his works evoking ecstasy and the divine." Poet Robert Bly reads from his translation of Rumi's works for NPR's Morning Edition.
"Sufism created a whole set of sacred arts of remarkable significance in the field of music, in the field of dance, in the field of calligraphy, which became means whereby people attracted to these forms of beauty could in the long run become attracted to the beauty of God," said noted Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. |
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