Start date: 7 December 2009
End date: 8 December 2009
Location: Negombo, Sri Lanka
Organized by LIRNEasia and supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC)
Pilgrimage to Paradise:Sufi tales from Rumi
edited by Kamla K Kapur
Penguin, 2009
Rumi is undoubtedly one of the best-known of the Sufi masters. Even so, the public, for
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