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Turkey

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Istanbul

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Atıf Efendi Kütüphanesi

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Work 2: Mas̲navī-i Turkī (Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312)

LOC subject headings

Sufi poetry, Persian

Masnavis, Persian

Author

Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312

سلطان ولد

Show other names

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad

Sultan Veled, 1226-1312

Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312 (authorised)

Sulṭān Walad, 1226-1312 (variant)

Sultan Veled, 1226-1312 (variant)

Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad, 1226-1312 (variant)

سلطان ولد (variant)

Biographical notes

He was the eldest son of Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī 1207-1273, born on 25 Rabīʿ II 623 [1226 CE] in the city of Larende (Karaman, Turkey). He studied in Aleppo (Syria) and Damascus (Syria) and apparently was very close to his father. He was close to the Mawlavī circles from an early age and interacted with the friends of his father, especially Shams-i Tabrīzī, -1247, who according to Shams al-Dīn Aflākī, d. 1360 and Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad Sipahsālār was sent by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī to bring Tabrizi back to Anatolia from Damascus (Syria). He also is the copyist of the eldest surviving manuscript of Tabrīzī’s work Maqālāt. He had two daughters and a son called Aref Çelebi,1272-1320, who became his successor after his death. He has a prolific literary and religious life, composing prose and versed works on Sufism and actively attracting influential people to the proto-Sufi order that began to take shape during his time as leader of his father’s followers. Four poetic and one prose work in Persian are known, some contain some early Turkish verses, Arabic and a few Greek lines. He died in 712 AH [1312-1313 CE].

Title

Mas̲navī-i Turkī

Notes

A collection of poems in mathnavi form attributed to Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312

Bound together with the Dīvān-I Kabir of Rūmī, 1207-1273

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Sulṭān Valad, . Mawlavī-i dīgar : shāmil-i ghazalīyāt, qaṣāyid, Qaṭaʻāt, tarkībāt, ashʻār-i Turkī, ashʻār-i ʻArabī, musammaṭ, rubāʻīyyāt. Edited by Nafīsī, Saʻīd. Tehran: Kitābkhānah-i Sanāʼī, 1363 [1984].

Valad, Sulṭān. Dīvān [. Tehran: Kitāb-furūshī-yi Rūdakī, 1338 [1959].

Translations

Valad, Sultan and Feridun Nafiz Uzluk. Divanı Sultan Veled (Dīwān-i-Suḷtān Walad). Ankara: Uzluk, 1941.

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.

Schubert, Gudrun. "Sulṭān Walad." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.

Physical Description

Number of folios

n/a ff.

Columns

2

History

Date of copy

15th or 16th century