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Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad (1226-1312 AD) - known as Sultan Walad - was the son of Jalal al-Din Rumi and one of the founders of the Mawlawiyya order. Born in Laranda (present day Karman), he was sent by his father to study religious sciences in Damascus and Aleppo. In 1284 AD, he took up the succession which he had previously declined in favour of Çelebi Husam al-Din on his father's death. Sultan Walad organised the order and established branches outside Konya. With his succession really begins the history of the Mawlawiyya order.
The Mawlawiyya order is a Sufi order founded in 1273 AD by Jalal al-Din Rumi, the well-known 13th century Persian poet, jurist and theologian of Konya. It became a well-established Sufi order in the Ottoman Empire through realising a blood relationship with the Ottoman Sultans when Devlet Hatun, a descendant of Sultan Walad, married the Sultan Bayezid I. Their son, Mehmet I Çelebi, became the next Sultan and his descendants subsequently endowed the order with many gifts.
The Ibtida-nama (The Book of the Beginning) or Walad-nama is the first of Sultan Walad's three major works (the Rabab-nama and the Intiha-nama being the other two). Written in the style of a mathnavi in approximately ten thousand couplets, it constitutes an important source for the biographers of Baha al-Din (Rumi's father) and Mawlana (Rumi) as well as for the early history of the order.
The Ibtida-nama was composed between 1st Rabi' I and 4 Jumada II AH 690 (4 March-4 June 1291 AD) as stated on the final folio, seven years after Sultan Walad assumed the direction of the order. The paper of the present manuscript is typical of the highest quality of the 13th century, and the hand also is convincing as such, indicating that our manuscript is contemporaneous with Sultan Walad’s lifetime and was copied shortly after he composed this mathnavi. There is a strong possibility that the present copy was in fact copied by Muhammad bin 'Abdullah al-Konawi al-Waladi.
An extremely close hand is found in the copy of Mawlana's famous Mathnavi in Konya Mawlana Musem. The colophon of that manuscript states that the manuscript was finished in 1278 AD and indicates that it was written 'by Muhammad, the son of Konawi 'Abdullah who is a Waladi' (a person devoted to Sultan Walad). Furthermore the colophon mentions that al-Konawi copied the version from the 'original copy' written in the presence of Çelebi Husam al-Din, Mawlana's khalifa and his son Sultan Walad and that during the process of the copying, various sections were read to Mawlana for proofs, during which Mawlana amended and corrected the text. That manuscript is the only version of the Mathnavi that was copied from the drafts recited by Mawlana (Abdulbaki Golpinarli, Preface to the facsimile of the Konya Mathnavi, Ankara, 1993).
Given the closeness of style and hand it is very possible that the present manuscript was also copied by al-Konawi. On this basis it has therefore been suggested that al-Konawi, as the household scribe of Sultan Walad, inscribed many or all of the major works of the early Mawlawi saints, and that this is amongst them.
The Mawlawiyya order is a Sufi order founded in 1273 AD by Jalal al-Din Rumi, the well-known 13th century Persian poet, jurist and theologian of Konya. It became a well-established Sufi order in the Ottoman Empire through realising a blood relationship with the Ottoman Sultans when Devlet Hatun, a descendant of Sultan Walad, married the Sultan Bayezid I. Their son, Mehmet I Çelebi, became the next Sultan and his descendants subsequently endowed the order with many gifts.
The Ibtida-nama (The Book of the Beginning) or Walad-nama is the first of Sultan Walad's three major works (the Rabab-nama and the Intiha-nama being the other two). Written in the style of a mathnavi in approximately ten thousand couplets, it constitutes an important source for the biographers of Baha al-Din (Rumi's father) and Mawlana (Rumi) as well as for the early history of the order.
The Ibtida-nama was composed between 1st Rabi' I and 4 Jumada II AH 690 (4 March-4 June 1291 AD) as stated on the final folio, seven years after Sultan Walad assumed the direction of the order. The paper of the present manuscript is typical of the highest quality of the 13th century, and the hand also is convincing as such, indicating that our manuscript is contemporaneous with Sultan Walad’s lifetime and was copied shortly after he composed this mathnavi. There is a strong possibility that the present copy was in fact copied by Muhammad bin 'Abdullah al-Konawi al-Waladi.
An extremely close hand is found in the copy of Mawlana's famous Mathnavi in Konya Mawlana Musem. The colophon of that manuscript states that the manuscript was finished in 1278 AD and indicates that it was written 'by Muhammad, the son of Konawi 'Abdullah who is a Waladi' (a person devoted to Sultan Walad). Furthermore the colophon mentions that al-Konawi copied the version from the 'original copy' written in the presence of Çelebi Husam al-Din, Mawlana's khalifa and his son Sultan Walad and that during the process of the copying, various sections were read to Mawlana for proofs, during which Mawlana amended and corrected the text. That manuscript is the only version of the Mathnavi that was copied from the drafts recited by Mawlana (Abdulbaki Golpinarli, Preface to the facsimile of the Konya Mathnavi, Ankara, 1993).
Given the closeness of style and hand it is very possible that the present manuscript was also copied by al-Konawi. On this basis it has therefore been suggested that al-Konawi, as the household scribe of Sultan Walad, inscribed many or all of the major works of the early Mawlawi saints, and that this is amongst them.