"Mevlana: on the 733rd anniversary of his death
Sunday, December 17, 2006
'While the world is seeking peace from wars and violent events, Mevlana, with his soft and compassionate manner and the tenderness of a caring voice, whispers in our ear, which hungers for tenderness, that the source of welfare and peace is in the tranquility of the body and that we won’t be able to see the face of peace if the spreading of egotism is overlooked,' says Konya Mayor Akyürek His name was Celaleddin, the glory of religion; he was called Rumi because he lived in the land of the Rums (Byzantine Greeks), Anatolia, whence his family had migrated from Balkh (in today’s Afghanistan) in the early 13th century; he acquired the title of Mevlana or our lord because of his teachings "
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