Headstone Project: Rumi
I know it’s a cumbersome name but I can’t think of another one (any suggestions gratefully received) and the whole thing is a bit weird to be honest but for a number of years I have been visiting the tombs and graves of people who have had some resonance for me in my life - I thought it was about time to gather my photos and notes of these and get them in some sort of order so I’ll intermittently publish them here and write a bit about the people.
I should stress there is no element of ‘shrine-visiting’ in all this - it’s just that if I’m in Damascus then Ibn Arabi’s tomb is somewhere I like to visit because I’m interested in his work. It’s not a ‘looking for a miracle or blessing’ thing although a lot of that does go on and it is a useful opportunity to observe it.
In time I’m going to dig out some photos of Orage’s beautiful headstone, Sir Richard Burton’s Arab tent mausoleum at Mortlake and Gurdjieff’s dolmens in Fontainbleau. I also have some photos of Uwais al-Qarni’s alleged resting place stashed somewhere too but for now here are some of Rumi’s mausoleum in Konya. I didn’t take these but will dig mine out and write an update of several visits to Konya over the next week or so.
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