The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

by Philip Jenkins

Rumi was reputedly never happier than when communing with the Christian monks of the house of Saint Chariton, near Iconium (Konya). Rumi’s followers founded the Mevlevi order, which won many adherents for Islam among the Christian populations of the battered Anatolian cities.