1. Mawlana Jalal al-Din Balkhi (Rumi) 1207-1273
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counting manuscript
masnavi ma'navi molavi
hast qur'an be zaban-e pahlavi
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before the printing press
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Balkhi (Rumi)

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into church services. unitarians, but also quakers and shakers.

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Saljuq/Ottoman patronized.
popular pilgrimage/ over 1 million.
Rumi’s shrine in Konya

4. The Green Dome of Rumi’s Tomb in Konya (1274)
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ayat al-kursi.
verse of the throne.

6. Coleman Barks

7. Popular pilgrimage/Museum

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Masnavi-hane tradition in Bosnia, ottoman empire.

9. Whirling ceremony (Sama)
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performative tradition. discipline. embodied spiritual tradition where the body is the site of training.
Whirling ceremony (Sama)

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later on orchestrated. skirts, hat.
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turban is tombstone, white outfit is the shroud.

11. Cemalnur Sargut (Turkish female Sufi teacher)

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illuminated, patronized.
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in immitation of the Qur'an

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he himself provides for us.
800 pages of Rumi stories. window into 13th century.
sultan valad: people are stupid. different faculties.
not suitcase theory. william chittick.
deragatory towards some one who 60,000 poetry.
one doesn't so much read the masnavi, as live the masnavi. walk the masnavi.

14. Introduction to the Masnavi (1278 manuscript): The greatest fiqh (understanding) of God, the most luminous path (shar‘) to God, and the most manifest proof of God.

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you have to remember we are outsiders, have obtained this place by force.
Politics of Knowledge in premodern Islam social history.
knowledge/power. Orthodoxy. mysticism is part of that orthodoxy.
Sufis/madrasas/caravansarays/
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mysticism and law become the two key fountains of Islamic learning piety and popular practice.

16. The Reed flute (ney) as metaphor for human condition
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Ney,
musician,
Training.
Not the first.
exile. separation.
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separations.
The Reed flute (ney) as metaphor for human condition

17. Seeking one real Human being

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Listen to this reed.
hollow.
jodaaee-haa Adorno: truth is to let the condition of suffering speak.
exile sa'id: exile
Neyestaan.
sharheh sharheh/ sharh
asl-e khish. usul usul usul din.
didn't seek my asrar. kashf asrar
tan jaan.
ataash fire. love. transformation
haasel-e omram 3 sokhan bish nist.
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why begin with pain, suffering exile. because that is wehre we are. you begin with humanity in their condition. what is the structure of the masnavi?
to become fully human.

19. Love as Astrolabe of Divine Secrets
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astrolabe find your path through a wildernness
orientation.
love as cosmic orientation.
love not a feeling, but a divine commitment.
mohabbat/ishq majazi/haqiqi (hamrang)
mazhab-e eshq. contrary to other mazaahib.
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and love involves suffering.
like fire.
hasl omram se sokhan bish nist.
becoming who you have been all along.
suffering of the spiritual path.
Muslim scientists using ASTROLABE
Love as Astrolabe of Divine Secrets
Astrolabe for calculating

20. Layla and Majnun

21. Ahmad Ghazali and Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani (Shahed-bazi)
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shahed-shahada
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are we interrupting? by god yes!
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break down of the narrative slipping from the skilled hand of the poet. reading a story of the kind and the maiden.
how is it that a mere mention of a name this kind of impact?

23. Abu ‘l-Hasan Kharaqani

24. Farid al-Din Attar (9 out of ten)

25. Mantiq al-Tayr and Tazkerat al-awliya of Attar.

26. Rumi and Shams meeting (Naz, you wouldn’t understand)
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meeting with Shams.
Rumi and Shams meeting (Naz, you wouldn’t understand)

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heir to esoteric knowlege. for rumi, the model of the complete mature human being.
so we have started with separation, exile, with lamentation, we go through love, and end with the state of a complete human being.

29. Hagia Sophia and Sultanahmet

30. SultanAhmet Mosque

31. Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofya)