Mesnevi In Italian Will Be Presented To Pope Benedict XVI

KONYA - The Pope Benedict XVI, cardinals and high ranking bureaucrats from the Vatican and Italy will watch a Mevlevi dervish dance show (sema) at the Vatican on June 5th.
The sema will take place within the framework of "Dialog Among Religions" and is being co- sponsored by the Vatican Culture Council and Turkey`s Embassy in the Vatican.
The sema will be performed at the historical Cancelleria Palace.
Also `Mesnevi`, the famous masterpiece of Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated in Italian, will be presented as a gift to Pope Benedict XVI the same day.
Mesnevi, written by Jalal al-Din Rumi, is one of the best known and most influential works of Sufism. Comprising six books of poems that amount to more than 25,000 verses, it pursues its way through hundreds of stories that illustrate man`s predicament in his search for God.