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MMS/HG, "Rumi bio published in Tehran" - Mehr News - Tehran, Iran
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

“Sea by Sea”, a biography of the great Sufi mystic and Persian poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi, went on sale in Tehran bookstores this week.

The book, which is in Persian, was written by Mohammad Nasseri and published by Sureh-Mehr.

“This book is the first step for becoming familiarized with Rumi,” Nasseri wrote in the preface of the book.

“I have tried to look at Rumi’s life from the beginning to the end very concisely and I also tried to make the readers more sensitive to and interested in Rumi’s character,” he added.

“This work is a drop of the sea of Rumi’s personality,” he noted.

“Manaqib al-Arefin” is one of the sources that was used to write the book. Written by Shams ud-Din Ahmad Aflaki in the 14th century CE, it is the oldest and most reliable biography of Rumi.

Ahmad Sepahsalar’s “The Biography of Rumi”, Ata’ollah Tadayyon’s “Rumi and the Storm of Shams”, and Abdolhossein Zarrinkub’s “Step by Step to a Meeting with God” are some of the other sources.