Links

(updated 8/09)

ABOUT THE COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF RUMI'S QUATRAINS (available to order since 5/09)

Masnavi-Related Sites

Whinfield's (abbreviated) translation of the Masnavi (1898) with word search capacity

Redhouse's translation of Book 1 the Masnavi (1881), not considered as very accurate by Nicholson

Turkish website's Masnavi scans (Whin. trans. & Nich. trans. [reformatted, no tables of contents])

Nich. trans. of Books I & II of Mathnawi (same as on semazen.net site; reformatted, no table of contents)

Nich. trans. of Books III & IV of Mathnawi (same as on semazen.net site; reformatted, no table of contents)

Nich. trans. of Books V & VI of Mathnawi (same as on semazen.net site; reformatted, no table of contents)

Nich. trans. of Books 3 & 4 of Mathnawi (has many misspelled words due to scanning errors)

Hard copy (CD no longer available) of the complete English translation of Mathnawi and commentary by Nich. with calligraphy text (apparently based on his Persian text) with several other works (in Persian and English) by Rumi and `Attar

Order the three volumes of Nicholson's complete translation of "The Mathnawi" (2 books per volume), the two volumes of Commentary, & the three volumes of the Persian text (1926-40)--separately or in sets, from the website of Nicholson's publisher

Order the three volumes of Nicholson's complete translation of "The Mathnawi" & the three volumes of the Persian text from Amazon.com

Order Whinfield's (abbreviated) translation of the Masnavi(1898)

Order Arberry's "Tales From the Mathnawi" (1961)

Order Mojaddedi's rhymed translation of Book 1 of Masnavi (2004)

Order Mojaddedi's rhymed translation of Book 2 of Masnavi (2007)

Order Williams' translation of Book 1 of Masnavi (2006, in iammbic pentameters)

Order a 4 CD audiobook of selections from Williams' translation of Book 1 of Masnavi, read by Anton Lesser (from Amazon.com)

Order a 4 CD audiobook of selections from Williams' translation of Book 1 of Masnavi, read by Anton Lesser (from Amazon.co.uk, £8.99)

Order Prof. Erkan Türkmen's book, "The Essence of Rumi's Masnevi" (published in Turkey, contains good commentary)

"Rumi's Masnavi", an excellent series of eight short articles on Masnavi written by Prof. Franklin Lewis for the Guardian, London (11/09 - 1/10)

Alternative page for Prof. Lewis' eight articles on "Rumi's Masnavi", with reader comments

Articles about Masnavi translated from Turkish

Online Persian text of the entire Masnavi, based on the DVD edition of A. Soroosh, based on the oldest manuscript of Masnavi (the "Konya manuscript").

Order a DVD of A. Soroosh's edition of the complete Persian text of Masnavi based on the oldest manuscript, with excellent search capacity (an earlier version, "Mathnawi in the 2nd mirror" also contains Dr. Soroosh's narration of Book 2 linked to all verses of the text--Ver1.95)

Order "Mathnavi-ye Ma'navi" based on the edition of Mahdi Azar Yazdi, with narration linked to every line of the texts of all 6 books, with search capacity, with 5 commentaries, with complete Arabic text of Qur'an with Persian translation (there is also an MP3 version available of the entire narration on 2 CD's called "Sawt-e kâmel-e shesh daftar-e mathnavî-ye ma'navî"

Complete text of the ghazaliyyat based on Foruzanfar's edition, uploaded by Javed Hussen

Hossein Kord's Persian website: complete text of the Masnavi (not Nich.'s edition--contains many verses added over the centuries, many of which are asterisked), with search capacity; complete text based on Foruzanfar's edition of the ghazaliy yat from Divan-e Kabir(Javed Hussen's upload dividedinto seven sections), with search capacity; text based on the "pseudo-Foruzanfar" edition of the ruba'iyat from Divan-e Kabir (1995 ruba'iyat--the authentic edition has 1983 and is differenly ordered), with search capacity

Translation of an Urdu commentary of Masnavi by a Cheshtî shaykh (Hakîm M. Akhtar Sâheb)

Order a CD of short Masnavi selections, translated and narrated by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Nihat Tsolak's Masnavi page

Nihat Tsolak's Masnavi page

Masnavi translations by Shahriar Shahriari

Order a selection of Masnavi stories written for children (11-14), 32 pages.

Link to purchase European languages translations of the Mathnawi (based on Nicholson's complete English translation) done by a Swedish scholar, Christer Oxenstierna (Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Swedish)

Masnavi manuscript (17 page sample)

Masnavi selections of Dr. Zahra Moussavi, U. of Manitoba (Persian texts, requires downloaded Persian font to view)

Dars-e-Masnavi Online (Urdu commentary on Masnavi by Huzoor Qibla Alam Pir Alauddin Siddiqui, with video and MP3 download links)

"The Operation of Love in Rumi's Masnavi" (A talk in 2007 by Alan Williams, with excerpts from his translation of Book 1 together with transliterations of the Persian text)

Other Rumi Sites

The "Mawlana Rumi Review," a publication of the Rumi Institute (Cyprus) and the Rumi Studies Group (UK), an annual journal (the first issue was published in 5/10), with articles, reports, and book reviews in English by leading Rumi scholars. This is the first academic journal devoted to the works of Mawlana Rumi.

Mevlana Studies website: "This site is intended for English-speaking Muslims eager to understand the works of Mevlânâ Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî within the Islamic tradition".

Revision (1999) by Doug Marman of Arberry's translation of "Rumi's Discourses" (not strongly recommended, per numerous omissions and alterations).

Revision (2010) by Doug Marman of Arberry's translation of "Rumi's Discourses" (an improvement of the 1999 version, compared with the Persian text to improve acuracy).

Turkish website's scans (Marman's revision of Arberry's trans. of "Discourses of Rumi" [Fîhi Mâ Fîhi] and Nevit Ergin's translations of ghazals from Divan-i Kebir [based on Golpinarli's Turkish trans.])

Sixty three of Arberry's (1949) rhymed translations of Rumi's quatrains (with transliterations and key word translations by Eliza Tashibi)

Translations of some of Rumi's quatrains (from Dîvân-e Kabîr) by Zara Houshmand (self-taught in Persian)

Rhymed translations from Rumi's Divan by Shahriar Shahriari (with Persian text)

"Fundamentals of Rumi's Thought: A Mevlevi Sufi Perspective" online version (excerpts, 318 pages, from the Turkish book, "Mevlâna: hayati, shahsiyeti, fikirleri" of 566 pages by Shefik Can, venerable Mevlevi shaykh, Rumi scholar and translator, and Masnavi teacher, who died in 2005)

Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush's lectures in English, at Harvard University

Society for Understanding Mevlana (website of Nevit Ergin, who has translated the entire Divan into English from a Turkish translation; 22 volumes have been published, with the last volumes [about three] still unpublished)

Online Persian text of the entire Divan-e Kabir, based on the first seven volumes of Foruzanfar's edition, based on the oldest manuscripts (Unfortunately, the Ruba`iyyat are not based on his authentic eighth volume but on the inferior Isfahan edition of the quatrains added to a one-volume edition of Foruzanfar's edition).

Iranian "Jalal al-Din Rumi" website with an English page (with some audio tracks of poems translatedinto English) and a Persian page (with numerous audio tracks in Persian); also a downloadable Persian font is available if needed (http://www.farhangsara.com/font.htm)

Encyclopedia Britannica article on Rumi

Wikipedia article on Rumi

The roots of Rumi and the Mathnawi in Islam

Paintings inspired by Rumi translations by Dr. Rasoul Sorkhabi

A well-researched treatise in English about the Persian/Iranian backgrounds of Mawlana Rumi and Shams-i Tabrizi and a refutation of claims that they were Turkish, by Rahgozari Minutalab

Mevlânâ Arashtirmalari Derneghi (Turkish academic website about Mevlana Rumi's works, with some articles in English)

Selçuk University of Rumi Studies (Konya,Turkey)

Rumi List Serves and Newsgroups

"Sunlight" (subscribe to receive daily Rumi poems; of special value are postings of comparisons of "poetic versions" with more accurate translations of the same poems)

"Ruminations" (a Rumi discussion group)

Weblog link to Dar-Al-Masnavi.org discussion group

Other Things to Order

Order "The Quatrains of Rumi," translated by Ibrahim Gamard (Dar-al-Masnavi.org webmaster) and Ravan Farhadi (Afghan scholar), published 5/09

Order "Rumi and Islam," translated (mostly from the Masnavi) by Ibrahim Gamard (Dar-al-Masnavi.org webmaster), published 3/04

Order the new edition of Arberry's translations of 400 ghazals from Divan-e Kabir, "Mystical Poems of Rumi" and "Mystical Poems of Rumi: Second Selection" combined in one volume, with corrected text

Order Forûzânfar's complete edition of the Persian text of Dîvân-e Kabîr (or "Dîvân-e Shams-e Tabrîzî"), with searchable text, with 425 ghazals narrated by A. Soroosh linked to each verse

Order a facsimile of the beautiful manuscript of Divan-i Kebir (1368, two volumes) that is on display at the Mevlana Mausoleum in Konya Turkey

Order a highly recommended and encyclopedic book about Rumi, by Franklin Lewis, 2003, 2007

Order a complete translation of stories about Rumi (by Aflaki, a disciple of his grandson)

Order accurately translated excerpts from the "Discourses of Shams-e Tabrizi" done (2004) by Prof. William Chittick)

Order "Fundamentals of Rumi's Thought: A Mevlevi Sufi Perspective" (excerpts, 318 pages, from the Turkish book, "Mevlâna: hayati, shahsiyeti, fikirleri" of 566 pages by Shefik Can, venerable Mevlevi shaykh, Rumi scholar and translator, and Masnavi teacher, who died in 2005)

Order "Clarifications: Mystical Poetry of Rumi," Translated From the Persian by Robert Darr, 2002, 59 pages, Real Impressions, P.O. Box 714 Sausalito, CA 94966 (translated selections using Nicholson's text of the Masnavi)

Order a book of Rumi's stories and Praises about the Prophet Muhammad (published 3/04)

Mevlevi Organizations

The Chelebi family website

The website of the International Mevlânâ Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey (Faruk Hemdem Çelebi, Chairman)

The Istanbul Mevlana Educational and Cultural Association (Mevlâna EGitim ve Kültür DerneGi) (KadIköy, Turkey), led by Shaykh Ahmet Kadri Yetish (followers of the current Chelebi Efendi, Mevlana's descendent)

Internationale Mevlana Stiftung Schweiz (Switzerland), led by Shaykh Hüseyin Peter Cunz (followers of the current Chelebi Efendi, Mevlana's descendent)

Internationale Hz. Mevlânâ Stiftung Mevlana e.V. Nürnberg (Germany), led by Shaykh Süleyman Bahn (followers of the current Chelebi Efendi, Mevlana's descendent)

"YüzyIllar Boyu Mevlâna ve Mevlevîlik, Mevlana and Mevlevi Order Throughout Centuries" (published in Turkey, 2008, 436 pages, by the International Mevlana Foundation, Istanbul, and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism; edited by Esin Çelebi Bayru and Bekir Reha Saghbash. In Turkish and (complete) English translation, with articles on Mevlana and the Mevlevi Order, Mevlevi Music, the Mevlevi Oder and its Social History, the International Mevlana Foundation Services Program, and Appendices (including Mevlevi Terms)

Turkish Whirling Dervish Sema Group Websites

The Galata Mevlevi Music Ensemble of the Turkish Cultural Music Association (Türk Küktürü Müsikisi DerneGi, Galata Mevlevi Müsikisi ve Sema TopluluGu, Istanbul), led by Shaykh Nail Kesova (founded, 1978)--there is no Turkish website, but there is a webpage about the Galata Mevlevi Ensemble (in English) on a German international music website

The Galata Mevlevi Sema and Sufi Music Group of the Istanbul Mevlana Educational and Cultural Association (Mevlâna EGitim ve Kültür DerneGi, Galata Mevlevi Sema ve Tasavvuf Müzik TopluluGu), led by Shaykh Ahmet Kadri Yetish (formerly co-led by Shaykh Hüseyin Top, now retired) (founded, 1999)

The Istanbul Music and Sema Group (Istanbul Müzik ve Sema TopluluGu), Istanbul & Konya, led by Shaykh NadIr KarnIbüyükler (founded, 1998), the Sema group is in Konya

Video of Shaykh NadIr and his whirling dervish group in Konya

The Istanbul Historical Turkish Musical Group (Istanbul Tarihi Türk Müsikisi TopluluGu) of the Turkish Republic's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Turkey, led by Shaykh Ömer TuGrul Inançer (founded, 1992)

The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Group (Konya Türk Tasavvuf MüziGi Toplulugu of the Turkish Republic's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Konya, Turkey (founded, 1990)

Turkish website of a Mevlevi dervish, whirler (semazen), and reed-flute player (neyzen), Istanbul

Turkish Mevlevi Heritage Websites

Website of a cultural society in Eskishehir, where an historic Mevlevi center [tekke] has been preserved

Some International Rumi Sites

Afghan webpage

Swedish website

Order a book of selections from Masnavi and Divan-e Kabir in Swedish

Russian website

Japanese Masnavi webpages (font needed for the Japanese characters)

Photographs of Konya, Türkiye

360 degree views of Mevlana Rumi's mausoleum in Konya

Photos of Konya, whirling dervishes, and Mevlevi-related art

Sacred Sites webpage about Konya

Some Reed Flute (Ney) Makers in Istanbul, Türkiye

hanefikirgiz@e-kolay.net (Hanefi KIrgIz's email address)

Rifat Varol's website

Ney Taksims