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Traveller's Guide
Masnevi
786 The Zahuri Sufi Web Site The Mesnevi of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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Index of lines in Masnevi
01 - 18
35 - 54
19 - 34
55 - 77
This is a photographic
reproduction from a
copy of the Mesnevi
made 5 years after the
passing away of
Mevlana Jalaluddin
Rumi. It was copied by
Mohammed the son of
Konyali Abdullah and
completed by
November 1278 AD.
It is stated that it was
copied from the original
written in the presence
of Celebi Husamuddin,
(Mevlana's successor)
and Sultan Veled
(Mevlana's son and
later successor).
Abdulbakr Gopinlari
emphasises, in the
Turkish Ministry of
Culture computer aided
photographic copy of
the book reproduced
here, that this is 'the
only version copied
from the drafts of the
Masnavi recited by
Mevlana after the first
eighteen couplets and
written by Celebi
Husamuddin, then read
to Mevlana for
corrections. Mr R. A.
Nicholson used this
original copy
(numbered 51 in the
Konya archives) for his
corrected translation of
the Mesnevi.'