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Dīvān-i Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273)

Author

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

جلال الدين رومي، مولانا

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Celâleddin-i Rûmı̂, 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-i Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

ديوان جلال الدين رومي

Notes

The latter part of the dīvān of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, often called Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (ديوان شمس تبريزی ), because the poet takes in it the name of his spiritual guide, Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247, as his pen-name (takhalluṣ / تخلص)

The present copy is slightly imperfect at beginning and end

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn. كليات شمس، يا، ديوان كبير / Kullīyāt-i Shams, yā, Dīvān-i Kabīr. Edited by Furūzānfar, Badīʻ al-Zamān. Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1338-1345 [1959-1966].

Catalogue

Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1879-1883, 593.

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British Library Add. 7738

Physical Description

Number of folios

255 ff

Columns

4

Ruled lines

17

Hand

Copyist: Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn bin Khvājah Sharf al-Dīn al-Bursarī, غیاث الدین بن خواجه شرف الدین البرسری

History

Date of copy

15th. century