Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi 05 Aug 2024

Rumi's Early Life and Spiritual Journey

In the series prologue, the young life of Rumi is presented while he is living in the city of Laranda (present day Konya). First, it presents his family background, education and describes some aspects of the culture at that time. The series of events presented in the show is devoted to the early life of Rumi and his attempts to find the meaning of life. The Mongol invasions and the socio-political environment are also introduced to the reader in a dramatic manner that forms the foundation for Rumi’s enlightenment process.

Rumi travels through an unfolding odyssey that is interspersed with an exciting litany of people of the age; such as the eminent Sufi sheikhs and wise scholars with whom Rumi meets and interacts in the story. This particular episode is centered in Rumi’s gradual disenchantment of the worldly vanities as well as the journey of his spirit. Some of them are the moment of his travelling, that was a pilgrimage for him, and the moments of his meetings with people who would later become his followers and close friends.