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Shems Friedlander's Work
on Rumi Continues
Shems Friedlander, director
of AUC's Apple Center for Graphic Communications and chairman of the Sony Gallery
International Advisory Board, continues his efforts to make the message of 13th-century
Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi known and understood throughout the modern world.
This fall and winter have been full ones for Friedlander.
The Watkins Review, a
British review devoted to publications on the spiritual, chose a still from the
film as cover photo for its Autumn/winter issue, which also contained an article
by Friedlander on his book Rumi - The Hidden Treasure (Archetype, London,
2002; Fons Vitae, Louisville, 2001).
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Following its screenings
at the Rumi Festival co-sponsored by
the Performing and Visual Arts Department (PVA) and the Adham Center
early on in the spring 2002 semester and at the Seattle-based Damah
Film Festival in October, his documentary film RUMI: The Wings of Love
was selected by the Comite du Film Ethnographique for a January 29,
2003 showing at the world-famous Musee de L'Homme, Paris.
A revised edition of his
Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes, with preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and
Foreword by Annemarie Schimmel, is in preparation and a Farsi translation of the
original edition is scheduled for publication in Tehran in the late spring.
Friedlander is pleased
with the way that his work is gaining international recognition. As he says, "In
the West, people love Rumi, but they don't understand him. The main thing I try
to get over is that Rumi embraced all religions, but he did so as a Muslim."
Friedlander is now working
on a new documentary, on the dhikr—the Remembrance of Allah-to be
called The Circles of Remembrance. The film will stress the basic similarities
underlying the many different approaches among the Sufi orders to this basic ritual.
By
Humphrey Davies
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