This is said to be the final resting spot of Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Rumi ... from Turkey’s advertising. "He was a friend of God, a wise man," says Sidika, a local Konya resident, aged 47 ...

KONYA, Turkey (RNS ... Konya she would find inspiration to finish her next book. Three-quarters of a millenium after his death, Rumi consistently ranks among the bestselling poets in ...

Rumi's spiritual teachings and poetry have deeply influenced the entire Islamic world. Rumi was born in present-day Afghanistan and later migrated to Konya, Turkey, where he lived most of his life and ...

Local and foreign tourists gathered in a Turkey ... of Rumi’s passing, known as “Sheb-i Arus" (the night of union), started on Dec. 7 in the central Anatolian province of Konya, where ...

Rumi was a Sufi poet, theologian and teacher who was born in Persia (now part of Afghanistan) and died in Konya (present-day Turkey ... gave Rumi his Asrarnama, a book about the soul mixed ...