Welcome to Rumi Returning

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An inter-faith organization with whom we are involved is the World Faiths Organization in Regina, Canada. From their website: "The global village is already taking shape. Each one of us can do something to make this global village into a reality faster. By creating more bonds, through greater connections between the inhabitants of the village. We want to make this village beautiful. A place where there is harmony and love. In this village there is no place for violence or war. In love there can be no violence and no war. Let us strengthen the feeling of harmony that has started to take shape."

"Rumi Returning"
"The creators of this movie have done what Rumi did - using art to create a gentle, touching, and at the same time extraordinarily powerful reminder of the truth that the pure essence of all religions is One."
   Lucie Hajkova
   Brahma Kumaris University
   Plzen, Czech Republic

Interfaith and InterCultural Dialogues
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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.)

Interfaith Dialogue “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:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2007/08/29/
AR2007082902168.html?hpid=sec-artsliving