November 30, 2010
Source: The Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/30/2482724/dances-of-joy-words-of-love-at.html
Every December, Kansas City Sufis celebrate the 13th-century mystic who is among the best-selling poets in America today.
Jelaluddin Rumi was a highly respected scholar in Konya in modern Turkey when he met Shams of Tabriz. Their scandalously intense friendship ended four years later when Shams was apparently murdered.