Rumi and his Legacy

Scott Redford is Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London and specialist in the art, archaeology, and architecture of medieval Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean. A.C.S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Early Seljuq History (2010). Dr Richard Piran McClary is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. He received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He has lectured extensively on a range of subjects related to medieval Islamic art and architecture, and has conducted fieldwork in India, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia and across the Middle East. He is a specialist in the architecture and ceramics of the medieval Iranian world, and the history of the Islamic art market. He has published three monographs; Mina’i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares through Sherds (EUP, 2024), Medieval Monuments of Central Asia. Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries (EUP, 2020), and Rum Seljuq Architecture 1170-1220. The Patronage of Sultans (EUP, 2017). He has edited Stucco in the Islamic World: Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India (EUP, 2025), and co-edited a volume with Andrew Peacock, entitled Turkish History and Culture in India. Identity, Art and Transregional Connections (Brill, 2020). He has also published articles in numerous journals, including: Muqarnas, Iran, Persica, Anatolian Studies, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. He has served as a trustee and the Research Director for the British Institute of Persian Studies, and is managing editor of the Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and ImagesNotes on ContributorsFOREWORDMohammad Este’lami INTRODUCTION - Revisiting Rumi: Work, Context and LegacyRichard Piran McClary A. C. S. Peacock & Scott Redford PART I: THE HISTORICAL RUMI1. The Mystical Subject: Examining the Contingency of Identity in the Quest for the Historical RumiMatthew Lynch 2. Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, Qaratay, and the Seljuk Political Elite of Konya in the 1240s-1250sSara Nur YıldızPART II: APPROACHING THE TEXT IN RUMI’S WORKS3. Opening the Eye of the Heart Alan Williams 4. Reflections on Narratives of Economic Morality in the Writings of Rumiİklil Selçuk5. Sin and Repentance in Rumi’s Poetry Ali-Asghar Seyed-Ghorab PART III: ART HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO RUMI6. A Reassessment of the Shrine of Rumi in Medieval Konya Zarifa Alikperova7. The Lion and the Double-Headed Eagle: Two Bookstands made for the Shrine of Jalal al-Din RumiScott Redford8. A Changing City: Architectural Innovation and Urban Renewal in Konya during the Lifetime of RumiRichard Piran McClaryPART IV: THE RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY LEGACY OF RUMI9. “O Jalal al-Din, O Thou Mine of Knowledge!”: Rumi in Early Ottoman Religious and Intellectual Culture Murat Inan10. The Mathnawi Form and the Beginnings of Islamic Literary Culture in Anatolia Zeynep OktayPART V: THE POLITICAL LEGACY OF RUMI11. Rumi’s Legacy in Hagiography and Historiography beyond the MevlevisA. C. S. Peacock12. Rumi and Religious Pluralism: Mystical Poetry in the Political Theories of Abdolkarim SoroushMaarten HoltzapffelIndex