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Hidden in Plain Sight

Name: Hidden in Plain Sight
ISBN: 9783111565187

?sm???l An?arav?'s commentary on 'Book Seven' of R?m?'s Mathnaw?

Eliza Tasbihi,

254 pages
English
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Hidden in Plain Sight

?sm???l An?arav?'s commentary on 'Book Seven' of R?m?'s Mathnaw?

Eliza Tasbihi,

About this book

The book is an examination of the apocryphal text known as Book Seven of the Mathnaw?, attributed to R?m?, which has never before been studied. Why was this text was added to R?m?'s Mathnaw?? What were its implications in the Mevlev? centers in 17 th- century Ottoman society or in Persian speaking societies in India and Iran? The author has located and analyzed different manuscript versions of the text, discusses possible authors and motives behind its composition: Was Book Seven added on the Indian subcontinent or in the Ottoman Empire? One important aspect of the text being interpreted as Book Seven was a great anxiety over whether R?m?'s Mathnaw? had been incomplete, an assumption made by R?m?'s own son Sul??n Valad as well as by Sufis in India and the Ottoman lands.

In addition to a literary examination of Book Seven of R?m?'s Mathnaw?, the study also sheds light on religio-political conflicts between various social groups in Ottoman society in which this text played a major role. By examining ?sm???l Anqarav?'s (d.1631) introduction on his commentary, which presents a detailed account of his debate with Mevlev? and Khalvet? Sufis and shaykh s, I argue that Anqarav? claimed authority as the ultimate commentator and Mathnaw? -reciter among the Mevlev? Sufis, a claim that was bolstered by his closeness to Sultan Murad IV (d. 1049/1640).

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