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Work 1: Dīvān Kabīr (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273)

LOC subject headings

Sufi poetry, Persian

Sufism (Early works to 1800)

Sufi literature, Persian

Author

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

جلال الدين رومي، مولانا

Show other names

Celâleddin-i Rûmî, Mevlâna, 1207-1273

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (authorised)

Balkhī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Balkhi, Jalaludin Mohammad, Mawlana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Balkhy, Jallal ed-Din Muhammad, 1207-1273 (variant)

Celâleddin-i Rûmı̂, Mevlâna, 1207-1273 (variant)

Celâleddin Rûmı̂, Mevlâna, 1207-1273 (variant)

D̲jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Djalâl-od-Dîn Rûmî, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschalaluddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschelal-Eddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschelaladdin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschelaleddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dzhalaliddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dzhaloluddin Balkhii Rumi, Mavlono, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dzhaloluddin Rumi, 1207-1273 (variant)

Ǧalāladdīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Gialâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī, Mawlāna, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalal-e Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalal Eddine Rûmi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalal-ud-din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāladdīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaladdin Rumi, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalālauddīna Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalálu-ʼd-ʼDín Muhammad i Rúmí, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāluddīn Balk̲h̲ī Rumī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balk̲h̲ī Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaluʼddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jaláluddin Rumi, Mevlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaludin Mohammad Balkhi, Mawlana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Jallal ed-Din Muhammad Balkhy, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jallal Molavi Rumi, Molana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Jaloliddin Rumiy, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jaloluddin Muḣammadi Rumī, Mavlono, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jelaluddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jelaluddin Rumi, Mevlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jolalud-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Mavlono Jaloluddin Muḣammadi Rumī, 1207-1273 (variant)

Mevlâna, 1207-1273 (variant)

Mowlavi, 1207-1273 (variant)

Roumi, Tzalalountin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rum, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rūmī, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jalal-e Din, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jalaladdin, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rūmī, Jalālauddīna, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jaláluddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jallal Molavi, Molana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Mevlana Jaláluddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumiĭ, Zhaloliddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumiy, Jaloliddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumy, Jelaleddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Tzalalountin Roumi, 1207-1273 (variant)

Ŷalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Mevlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Zhaloliddin Rumiĭ, 1207-1273 (variant)

Джалолуддин Руми, 1207-1273 (variant)

Джалолуддин Балхии Руми, Mavlono, 1207-1273 (variant)

بلخى، مولانا جلال الدين محمد بن محمد, مولانا (variant)

جلال الدين بلخى رومى،, مولانا (variant)

جلال الدين رومي،, مولانا،, 1207-1273 (variant)

‏جلال الدين رومى،‏, ‏Maulana,‏, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

جلال الدين رومى،, مولانا (variant)

رومي، مولانا جلال الدين،, مولانا (variant)

رومى (variant)

Biographical notes

According to some sources, he was born on Rabīʿ I 604 [1207 CE] in Balkh ( (Bausani, A. and H. Ritter. "D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.)). Generally known by his nickname Maulana, he was a Persian Sufi poet and the ideological founder of the Mawlawīyah Sufi order. He was the son of the Sufi thinker Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, 1150-1231 and together they migrated westwards when Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī was five years old. His family eventually settled in Anatolia after travelling across Central Asia, Iran and Iraq. Before taking up residence in Larende (Karaman), the family was for different periods of time in other Anatolian cities such as Sivas and the region close to Erzincan. Finally, at the request of the Seljuq prince Kayqubad I, Sultan of the Seljuks, -1237 ( (Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad. The feats of the knowers of God : Manāqeb al-ʻārefīn. Translated by O'Kane, John. Leiden: Brill, 2002., pp. 22)), they finally moved to Konya in 626 AH [1227-1228 CE]. It was in this city where Maulana became an influential religious leader close to the Seljuq court and where the Sufi order based on his teachings was to be developed. He had two main wives and a number of sons and daughters. Among them is Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, who was the real person who began the organisation of the Mawlawīyah Sufi order and succeeded his father as leader of his followers after his death. Different works by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī and compossed in the city of Konya have survived and arrived to our days. A collection of short ghazals and quatrains in Persian can be found in his Divān, there is also a collection of his sayings in the Fīhi mā fīh and letters written by him (Maktūbāt). However, the most famous of his work is the Mas̱navī-i maʻnavī, a didactic poetical work that became one of the key texts in Persian literature. Maulana died on the 5 Jumāda II 672 [1273 CE] in Konya.

Title

Dīvān Kabīr

دیوان کبیر

Notes

A verse work in Persian containing 36,360 verses (3,229 ghazals).This work has been considered by some scholars as being "unrivalled by any other book of verse in the world’s mystical poetic literature" ( (Lewisohn, Leonard. "“Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.” In Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (1200-1350)." Thomas, David and Alex Mallett, ed. Brill: Leiden, 2012, 491-508.)). The text came to be known as Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (Shams’ book of verse) because the name of Shams-i Tabrīzī, spiritual master of Rūmī, appears at the end of many of poems in this work. The work is a compilation that received different alternative titles such as Dīvān Kabīr, Kullīyāt-i Shams-i Tabrīzī, et. al. Due to the popularity of this work, many of the non-royal manuscript copies of the work that have that have survived to the present are only partial copies of the text.

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

1-98 ff.

Bibliography

Editions

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn. Kulliyāt-i Shams yā Dīvān-i kabīr az guftār-i Maulānā Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad mashhūr bi Maulavī, ba tasḥīḥāt va ḥawashī. Edited by Badīʿ, al-Zamān Furūzānfar. Tehran: Sipihr, 1984. (13633 AHsh)

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn. Kullīyāt-i Shams -i Tabrīzī. Lucknow: Munshī, 1302 [1884-5].

Translations

Arberry, A.J. and E. Yarshater. Mystical poems of Rūmī. Chicago IL: 2008. (with a new foreword by F. Lewis)

Meyerovitch, Eva de Vitray, ed. Mokri, Mohammad, trans. Odes mystiques (Dîvân-e Shams-e Tabrîzî). Paris: Klincksieck, 1973.

Nicholson, R.A., ed. Nicholson, R.A., trans. Selected poems from the Díwán-i-Shams-i-Tabríz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.

Studies

Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad. مناقب العارفين / Manāqib al-ʻārifīn. Ankara: Chāpkhānah-ʼi Anjuman-i Tārīkh-i Turk, 1976.

Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad. The feats of the knowers of God : Manāqeb al-ʻārefīn. Translated by O'Kane, John. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Bausani, A. and H. Ritter. "D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.

Lewisohn, Leonard. "“Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.” In Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (1200-1350)." Thomas, David and Alex Mallett, ed. Brill: Leiden, 2012, 491-508.

Work 2: Maʻārif (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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Bahāʼ 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

Foliation

99-120 ff.

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.

Work 3: Manāqib al-ʻārifīn (Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad (-1360))

LOC subject headings

Mevleviyeh

Mevleviyeh members

Islamic hagiography

Author

Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad (-1360)

شمس الدين أحمد الأفلاكي العارفي

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Şemseddîn Ahmed el-Eflâkî el-Ârifî

Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad, d. 1360 (authorised)

Ahmet Eflâki, d. 1360 (variant)

Eflâki, Ahmet, d. 1360 (variant)

Shams-uddīn Aḥmed Aflākī, d. 1360 (variant)

Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Aflākī al-ʻĀrifī, d. 1360 (variant)

ʻĀrifī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Aflākī, d. 1360 (variant)

Aflâkî, Chems-ed-dîn Aḥmed, d. 1360 (variant)

Chems-ed-dîn Aḥmed Alfâkî, d. 1360 (variant)

Aflākī ʻĀrifī, Shams al-Dīn, d. 1360 (variant)

أفلاكى، شمس الدين أحمد،, d. 1360 (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known about his place or date of birth, despite some scholars have estimated that he should have been born between 1286 and 1291 [1286-1291 CE]. Apart from his first name (Aḥmad), we do not know his original family name or nisba. His surname “Aflākī” might refer to him acquiring some knowledge of astronomy (Aflāq = planets) at an early age. Although he lived in Anatolia, in his work, he provides no indications that he grew up in Konya, which suggests that that he must have spent is youth outside of Anatolia. There is a reference to his father being patronised by Uzbek Khan and then dying in the city of Sarai, capital of the Golden Horde. Despite this, no specific mention of Aflākī being there is to be found in his writings (see (Aflākī, Aḥmad. The feats of the knowers of God: Manāqeb al-ʻārefīn. Translated by O'Kane, John. Leiden: Brill, 2002., pp. ix)). He mentions that he studies with Siraj al-Din Mawlavi, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin Tūqātī and Nizam al-Dīn Arzanjā nī . Once he entered the mevlevi order, he became a disciple of Jalāl al-Din Rūmī’s grandson Aref Çelebi. The only work produced by Aflākī to our knowledge is the Manāqib al-ʻārifīn (مناقب العرفین) which was the result of a direct request made by Aref Çelebi to write a book containing the life of all the mevlevi leaders up to his time. Aflākī died on the 15th of June 1360 [1360 CE] and he was buried in Konya where his tomb can still be seen.

Title

Manāqib al-ʻārifīn

مناقب العرفین

Notes

This is the well-known Persian hagiographic work on the life of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, including chapters on the life of his father (Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, 1150-1231), spiritual masters (Shams-i Tabrīzī, -1247) and his family (Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312; Aref Çelebi; et al.). It also includes anecdotes (hikayat) about early saints of the Mawlawiyya Sufi order. The final version of the work is the result of a compilation of different versions of the work composed by the author in the first half of the 14th century [1300-1350 CE] and from a collection of stories and anecdotes compiled from different parts of Anatolia and Ilkhanid lands. Among the literary sources he used are the Risālah dar manāqib-i Khudāvandgār (رساله در مناقب خداونگار) of Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad Sipahsālār and the Maqālāt-i Shams(مقالات شمس) of Shams-i Tabrīzī, -1247

The work was compose between 1318 and 1350 [1318-1350 CE].

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

120-298 ff.

Bibliography

Editions

Aflākī, Aḥmad. The feats of the knowers of God: Manāqeb al-ʻārefīn. Translated by O'Kane, John. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Aflākī, Aḥmad and Sir James W Redhouse. Legends of the Sufis : selected anecdotes from the work entitled The acts of the adepts (Menāqibu ʼlʻārifīn). London: Theosophical Pub. House, 1976.

Aflākī, Aḥmad. The hundred tales of wisdom: life, teachings, and miracles of Jalaludin Rumi from Aflākī's Munaqib, together with certain important stories from Rumi's works traditionally known as The hundred tales of wisdom. Translated by Shāh, Idries. London: Octagon Press, 1978.

Aflākī, Aḥmad. Manāḳib al-ʻārifīn: metin = Manāqib al-ʻārifīn. Translated by Yazıcı, Taḥsīn. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1976-1980.

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.

Yazıcı, Tahsin. "AHMED EFLÂKÎ." TDVIA. , [n.d.].

Physical Description

Columns

4

Ruled lines

21

History

Date of copy

possibly 15th. century