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TEHRAN – The city of Van in Turkey will be hosting the Second International Symposium of Masnavi-ye Manavi in late May.
The University of Urmia in collaboration with the Yuzuncu Yil University in Van has organized the symposium which will be running from May 22-24, symposium executive secretary Mahbub Talei said in a press release on Monday.
Over 300 articles have so far been submitted to the secretariat of the symposium, which is scheduled to discuss the influence of the Persian poet and mystic Rumi’s works and thoughts on contemporary poets and writers this year.
He also added that there are plans to publish the selected articles in advance for distribution at the symposium.
The first symposium with the central theme of Husam al-Din Chelebi and Masnavi-ye Manavi was held at the University of Urmia and drew about 80 researchers from Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan to Urmia.
Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273, the greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, famous for his lyrics and for his didactic epic Masnavi-ye Manavi (“Spiritual Couplets”), which widely influenced Muslim mystical thought and literature.
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