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 With “RUMI RETURNING,” we joined with UNESCO and the world in 2007 to celebrate the 800th birthday of the most beloved poet and mystic of love. The time has come for the unique, unitive vision he offers us to be explored in all of its expansive, ecstatic truth and beauty.
At a time when the disparity between members of humanity appears a gulf too vast to span, we offer “RUMI RETURNING” with the intention of building a bridge of understanding between the East and West toward mutual respect, compassion, and justice. At a time when conflict, destruction, and depletion seem to scream out to us from every outlet of our media as if to keep us down, we offer soaring beauty and inspiration. With its never-before seen, high-definition images of Rumi’s world in Turkey and its never-before heard insightful story of his life, “RUMI RETURNING” is a way of celebrating both our amazing diversity and our blessed similarity. In our telling, we highlight his complete rootedness in Islam and at the same time the flowering of his tolerance for other faiths. (Read more.)
 “RUMI RETURNING” features on-camera and is in consultation with Dr. Akbar Ahmed, Coleman Barks, Andrew Harvey, Üzeyir Özyurt and other authorities on Islam, Rumi and the Sufi way of peace. Dr. Akbar Ahmed and Coleman Barks are featured in this article that appeared in the Washington Post August 30, 2007:
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