KONYA
Konya Metropolitan Mayor Tahir Akyurek told AA on Friday that millions of people in the world were influenced by the messages of Rumi, and the municipality published Rumi's work in 22 different languages.
"Our target is to translate Mathnawi into 50 languages," he noted.
Mathnawi is currently being published in Persian, Turkish, Urdu, French, Turkmen, Spanish, English, Arabic, German, Italian, Albanian, Swedish, Japanese, Bosnian, Dutch, Kazakh, Uzbekh, Tajik, Chinese, Greek, Malay and Russian languages.
Mathnawi or Masnavi-I Ma'navi is one of the best known and most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature. Comprising six books of poems that amount to more than 50,000 lines, it pursues its way through 424 stories that illustrate man's predicament in his search for God.
Reporting by Murat Aslan
