SYMPOSIUM OF RUMI SCHOLARS ON THE 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF RUMI'S BIRTH AT THE SHRINE OF THE MOWLANA IN KONYA
15-16 DECEMBER 2007

15 December 2007

11:00-12:00 açılış

14:00-15:30 Birinci Panel

Başkan: Talat Sait Halman
Huseyin Elahi Ghomshei /The Symphony of Rumi
Alan Williams / Open Heart Surgery: The Poeteic Operation of Love in Rumi's Masnavi
Kabir Helminski / Rumi's Language of the Soul in Humanity's Defining Moment

15:45 – 17:15 İkinci Panel

Başkan: Franklin D. Lewis
Simon Weightman / Spiritual Progression in Books One and Two of the Masnavi
Michael Barry / The Man of God is a King Beneath his Dervish's Cloak
Peter Chelkowski / Shepherd/Dervish Paradigm from Rumi's Masnavi to the Popular Stage

16 December 2007

09:00 – 10:00 Birinci Panel

Başkan: Carl Ernst
Mahmut Erol Kılıç / The Importance of Rumi's Thought in the Modern World
Leonard Lewisohn / Reason, Intellect and Imagination in Rumi's Masnavi
Emine Yeniterzi / Journey to Perfection: Rumi's Perception of Change and Improvement

10:45 – 12:15 İkinci Panel

Başkan: Simon Weightman
James Morris / The Play of Shifting Voices and Perspectives in Rumi's Masnavi and the Qur'an
Carl Ernst / A Little Indicates Much; Part 2: Structure and Meaning in Prefaces to Rumi's Masnavi (Books 4-6)
Franklin D. Lewis / Toward a Chronology of the Works of Mowlana Rumi

14:15 – 15:45 Üçüncü Panel

Başkan: Leonard Lewisohn
Jawid Mojaddedi / The Rashidun in Rumi's Masnavi
Shahram Pazouki / Pretending to be Sunni: Revival of the Meaning of “Sunna” in the Mathnawi
Roderick Grierson / One Shrine Alone: Christians, Sufi's and the Vision of Mevlana