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Country

Netherlands

City

Leiden

Institution

Library of the University of Leiden

Collection

Oriental Manuscripts

Shelfmark

or. 1676 B

Contents

Work 8: Dīvān (Ulu Arif Çelebi, d. 1320)

LOC subject headings

Sufi poetry, Persian

Author

Ulu Arif Çelebi, d. 1320

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ʿĀrif Chalabī

Jalāl al-Dīn Farīdūn

عارف چلبی

Hu˜srev, Molla, -1480 (authorised)

Hʼusrav, Molla, -1480 (variant)

Hu˜srev, Molla, d. 1480 (variant)

Hu˜srev Molla, Mehmed, -1480 (variant)

Køhøosrew, Molla, -1480 (variant)

Mehmed b. Faramurz b. Ali, -1480 (variant)

Mehmed b. Firamurz b. Ali, -1480 (variant)

Molla Hu˜srev, -1480 (variant)

Muhammed b. Feramurz b. Ali, -1480 (variant)

Mulla Khusraw, Muḥammad ibn Faramurz, -1480 (variant)

Mulla Khusraw, Muḥammad ibn Faramurz, d. 1480 or 81 (variant)

ʼđł˜, ʹ (variant)

ʼđł˜, ʹ, ®. 1480 (variant)

ʼđł˜, ʹ (variant)

ʹ ʼđł˜, Ư · łʹłø (variant)

Biographical notes

A Sufi mystic, grandson of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī by his son Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312,. He was born Konya on 8 D̲h̲u al-Qaʿda 670 [1272 CE] and achieved the position of third leader of the Mevleviyeh Sufi order after his father died in 1312 [1312 CE]. If we trust some of his biographers such as Aflākī, Ulu Arif Çelebi, d. 1320 played an important role in the political establishment of this Sufi order, acting as an ambassador in the name of his father to the Mongol ruler Uljāytū Khudābandah, Ilkhan of Iran, approximately 1280-1316 during the year 1312 [1312 CE]. On that occasion, he opposed the recent conversion to Shiism by the Mongol Ilkhan. He also travelled in Iraq, Iran and especially across Anatolia but unlike his ancestors, he is not praised for his literary talents, leaving only a small number of poems mostly in ghazal and ruba’i form. The same Aflākī depicts him as more concerned with Sufi practices rather than literary activities, describing his participation in long samāʿ sessions that raised suspicion of Ulu Arif Çelebi’s involvement in antinomian tendencies of Anatolia Sufism (especially Qalandarism). He died in Konya on the 23rd of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 719 [1320 CE] and was buried in the Mevlevi Tomb (türbe) that is still standing in the city today.

Title

Dīvān

دیوان

Notes

A compendium of poems and quatrains written by Ulu Arif Çelebi in Persian.

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 89a-130a

Bibliography

Editions

Çelebi, Ulu Arif. Rubā'īyāt-i Ūlū 'Ārif Čelebī: Ulu Ârif Çelebinin rubaileri. Translated by Uzluk, Nafiz. Istanbul: Kutulmuş, 1949.

Translations

Çelebi, Ulu Arif. Ulu Ârif Çelebi dîvânı: tenkitli metin ve tercüme. Translated by Kunt, Halil İbrahim and Mehmet Vanlıoğlu. Konya:: Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2013.

Studies

Lewis, Franklin. Rumi: past and present, east and west : the life, teaching and poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi. Oxford and Boston: Oneworld, 2000.

Yazici, Tahsin. "ČELEBĪ, ʿĀREF." Encyclopaedia Iranca. V, [n.d.]: 121-122.

de Bruijn, J. T. P.. "ʿĀrif Čelebī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. , [n.d.].

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Milli Kütüphane 53

Mevlana Müzesi 2600

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 509

Physical Description

Number of folios

ff.

History

Date of copy

17th. century