Walking with Rumi by Roelant Meijer

Publisher: Tegenwind (self-published), Utrecht, 2023

Foreword: Kader Abdolah

Format: Bilingual artist book with fold-out pages (double-level reading)

Edition: 2nd edition, print run of 120 (incl. handwritten Rumi quote card)

Pages: 152

ISBN: 978-90-817221-7-9

Walking with Rumi is a book that behaves like a path: a two-level, fold-out structure where portraits and Rumi’s sayings sit on the surface, and the lived encounters unfold underneath—like stepping off the main road into the actual story. Roelant Meijer turns the Istanbul–Konya distance into a portable ritual: walking as publishing, publishing as devotion, the page as terrain. With a foreword by Kader Abdolah, the second edition keeps the work intimate and hand-made—less “travel book,” more evidence of a pilgrimage where language, faces, and fatigue become the same kind of light.