1. Meeting Shams-e Tabrizi

    · Konya, Turkey

    Meeting Shams-e Tabrizi
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    In Konya, Rumi’s encounter with the itinerant mystic Shams-e Tabrizi marked a major turning point in his intellectual and spiritual life. The year and city are supported; accounts differ on the precise day of Rumi’s first meeting with Shams.

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