Rumi The Wings of Love

Creened in several international film festivals as well as the Musée de LHomme in Paris this film takes viewers into a secret world rarely seen by outsiders Nearly eight centuries after his death Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi Sufi master and mystical poet is everpresent in the whirling ceremony of todays Mevlevi dervishes The Halveti zikr Mevlevi semas and the Gharib or secret semanot seen for over 100 yearswere filmed in Cairo Istanbul and the Garden of Rumi in Konya This unique footage set to Mevlevi music is enhanced by interviews with Sheikh Abu Bakr Siraj adDin Martin Lings Islamic philosopher and author Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Sheikh Omer Tugrel Inancer who reveals the hidden meaning of the reed flute