This evening is part of a week of Iranian/Persian culture in New York and encompasses lecture, poetry, music and whirling.
- Franklin Lewis, one of the most distinguished Rumi scholars in America, will speak on the cultural, historical and spiritual world of Medieval Persia from which the great Sufi poets emerged. He will discuss the principal ideas, the lodges and brotherhoods formed around mystical teachings, and will read the poetry of Rumi’s father and teachers, and the work of Sana’i, Attar and others.
- Amir Vahab, Sufi musical virtuoso (tanbour, oud, nay flute) and Farsi reciter with harpist/nay flautist Arsalaan and Peter Rogen, well-known Rumi interpreter, weave the mystical verses of Rumi with Sufi music as three dervishes whirl in prayer.
The evening concludes with an exploration by Professor Lewis of some of the major teachings of Rumi’s poetry including the religion of love, human nature and the Sufi path, and the world of spirit. Translator and Rumi lover Fereydoun Nazem will also share his work.
Whirling Dervishes.
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