Rumi Lecture: Rumi and the Crisis of Meaning

Description

Professor Jawid Mojaddedi, one of the world’s leading scholars and translators of Rumi, returns for this year’s Annual Rumi Lecture. In an age shaped by hyper-connectivity yet profound loneliness, material abundance yet spiritual uncertainty, the lecture explores why Rumi’s poetry and philosophy continue to resonate so powerfully within the modern world.  

Examining contemporary crises of meaning, spirituality in a post-religious age, and the enduring human search for transcendence and inner transformation, Mojaddedi considers what Rumi’s mystical vision may still offer societies navigating fragmentation, dislocation and the tension between information, ethics, modernity and the deeper need for connection and purpose.