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Country

Turkey

City

Ankara Milli Kütüphane

Institution

Milli Kütüphane Yazmalar Koleksiyonu

Shelfmark

no. FB 503

Contents

Work 7: Ibtidāʹnāmah (Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312)

LOC subject headings

Sufism (Early works to 1800)

Persian prose literature

Author

Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312

سلطان ولد

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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

Ibtidāʹnāmah

ابتدانامه

Notes

This work is considered one of the main accounts of the life and teachings of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī and his father Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, 1150-1231. This work was used extensively by the famous hagiographers Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad Aflākī, -1360 and Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad Sipahsālār. The work has an introduction in prose and that main text consist of poems containing a total of 9007 verses in Persian, Arabic, early Turkish and Greek.

Composed in 690 AH [1291 CE]

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

38r-40r

Bibliography

Editions

Sulṭān Valad, . Ibtidāʹnāmah. Edited by Muvaḥḥid, Muḥammad ʻAlī and ʻAlī Riz̤ā Ḥaydarī. Tehran: Shirkat-i Sihāmī-i Intishārāt-i Khvārazmī, 1389 [2010].

Translations

Sulṭān Valad, . İbtidâ-nâme. Translated by Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. Konya, Turkey: Konya Turizm Derneği, 1976.

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.

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İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 1380

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Kütahya Vahid Paşa İl Halk Kütüphanesi 645

Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 2642

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 18217

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 18224

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 18231

Milli Kütüphane Yazmalar Koleksiyonu no. A 6301

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 479

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 481

British Library 8200

Physical Description

Number of folios

56 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 12.5cm, height 19cm

Dimensions of written area

width 10.5cm, height 16cm

History

Date of copy

20th. century