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[Manuscript containing two texts related to Mevlana Rumi]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two works: (1) 3v-37v, Fatihü’l-ebyat – فاتح الابيات This is İsmail Rusuhi Ankaravi’s (died 1041 AH/1631 CE) commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the first eighteen beyitler of Mevlana Rumi’s (died 672 AH/1273 CE) Mesnevi. (2) 38v-138r: [Risāla-i Sipahsālār] – [...
This section (38v-138r) contains the earliest, and one of the most detailed, hagiographies of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (died 672 AH/1273 CE). It was authored by Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad Sipahsālār, who was Rūmī’s disciple for up to forty years and wrote the work in the decades after his passing. Writt...
This volume contains the Divan of Mustafa Selami Efendi (died 1228 AH/1813 CE), a şeyh of the Nakşibendi order whose mahlas was Selami. Born in Izmir, Selami was the son of a Nakşibendi şeyh named İsmail Şerhi, who preached from a tekke in İzmir. Selami himself travelled to Bukhara, Afghanistan...