Event ID # 94990
Date:
Sunday, November 8, 2009
 Time:
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Event:

An Evening of Persian Mystical Poetry & Wisdom
Host:

New York Open Center
Location:

(Murray Hill)   Google Map
New York Open Center
22 E. 30th Street
Contact:
Registration		 Phone:
212-219-2527 x 2
Email:
info@opencenter.org
Website:
http://www.opencenter.org
Price:
Members $25/ Nonmembers $30
Full details:
Franklin Lewis, PhD, and Sufi Dervishes

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. Then, Sufi musical virtuoso (tanbour, oud, nay flute) and Farsi reciter Amir Vahab, and harpist/nay flautist Arsalaan, will join Peter Rogen, well-known Rumi interpreter, to 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.

AN EVENING LECTURE
Sunday, November 8, 6–10pm
09FSW49S
Members: $25 / Nonmembers: $30

To register for this event click on the following link:
http://www.opencenter.org/persian-mystical-poetry-and-wisdom-rumi/

or call 212-219-2527 x 2
http://www.opencenter.org

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