SN/MR/BG - Press TV - Tehran, IranWednesday, March 14, 2007
Iran and Turkey will hold an international conference to commemorate the 800th birthday of the celebrated persian sufi poet Rumi.
Iran's cultural attaché to Turkey, Farhad Palizaban, announced plans to also prepare a sidebar exhibit to introduce Iran's tourist attractions to the public during the Rumi conference.
Palizaban said both programs are an opportunity to familiarize foreigners with Iranian culture.
"We are also working on a bilingual collection of Rumi's Masnavi in both Farsi and Turkish to be published in the coming months," he told reporters. Masnavi is one of the best known and most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature. The more than 25,000 verses that make up the six volume collection relate hundreds of stories which illustrate man's predicament in his search for God.
During his lifetime, Rumi lived in Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan. The three countries will offer independent events throughout 2007 to honor the transcendental poet.
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