MNA - Tehran IranSaturday, July 7, 2007
West Azarbaijan is to host the first film festival on Shams ad-Din of Tabriz in the near future.
Shams was an Iranian Sufi mystic born in the city of Tabriz. He initiated Molana Rumi into Islamic mysticism.
Sponsored by the provincial Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Cinematic affairs, the festival aims to present Khoy as the place where the master grew up.
“Perhaps, it is better if some of our national festivals are held in the provinces. For example various sections of the Fajr Film Festival took place in different parts of Iran. This reflects the rights of the people.” said Deputy Culture Minister for Cinematic Affairs Mohammadreza Jafari-Jelveh.
Jafari-Jelveh did not refer to the exact timing of the festival.
Shams Tabriz is immortalized in Rumi’s collection of poetry named the “Divan of Shams ad-Din of Tabriz”. Shams lived together with Rumi in Konya for several years.
Rumi’s love for Shams and his bereavement at his death found expression in an outpouring of music, dance, and lyrical poems. Rumi himself left Konya and went out searching for Shams, journeying as far as Damascus before realizing that Shams and himself were, in fact, "one and the same".
[picture: Shams of Tabriz as portrayed in a 1500 painting in a page of a copy of Rumi's poem dedicated to Shams. BNF Paris.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwan-e_Shams-e_Tabriz-i]
West Azarbaijan is to host the first film festival on Shams ad-Din of Tabriz in the near future.
Shams was an Iranian Sufi mystic born in the city of Tabriz. He initiated Molana Rumi into Islamic mysticism.
Sponsored by the provincial Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Cinematic affairs, the festival aims to present Khoy as the place where the master grew up.
“Perhaps, it is better if some of our national festivals are held in the provinces. For example various sections of the Fajr Film Festival took place in different parts of Iran. This reflects the rights of the people.” said Deputy Culture Minister for Cinematic Affairs Mohammadreza Jafari-Jelveh.
Jafari-Jelveh did not refer to the exact timing of the festival.
Shams Tabriz is immortalized in Rumi’s collection of poetry named the “Divan of Shams ad-Din of Tabriz”. Shams lived together with Rumi in Konya for several years.
Rumi’s love for Shams and his bereavement at his death found expression in an outpouring of music, dance, and lyrical poems. Rumi himself left Konya and went out searching for Shams, journeying as far as Damascus before realizing that Shams and himself were, in fact, "one and the same".
[picture: Shams of Tabriz as portrayed in a 1500 painting in a page of a copy of Rumi's poem dedicated to Shams. BNF Paris.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwan-e_Shams-e_Tabriz-i]
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