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Turkey

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Istanbul

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

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Contents

Maʻārif (Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312)

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

Maʻārif

معارف

Notes

The title of this work is an evocation of the work by his grandfather Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, 1150-1231 . It is a prose work in Persian containing the deeds and teachings of Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312.

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Valad, Sulṭān. Maʻārif-i Bahā al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī mashhūr bih Sulṭan Valad. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Mawlá, 1367 [1988].

Translations

Valad, Sulṭān. Maarif. Ankara: Millî Eğitim Basımevi, 1949.

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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Physical Description

Number of folios

156 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 13cm, height 20.9cm

Dimensions of written area

width 9.3cm, height 14.8cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

17

History

Date of copy

16th. century