Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī,or simply Rumi,was a 13th-century poet,Hanafi faqih,Islamic scholar,Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī,known by his pen name Hafez or Hafiz,was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature. His works are often found in the homes of Persian speakers,who learn his poems by heart and use them as everyday proverbs and sayings. His life and poems have become the subjects of much analysis,commentary,and interpretation,influencing post-14th century Persian writing more than any other Persian author.
The Masnavi,or Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi,also written Mathnawi,or Mathnavi,is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi,also known as Rumi. The Masnavi is one of the most influential works of Sufism,ascribed to be like a "Quran in Persian". Some Muslims regard the Masnavi as one of the most important of Islamic literature,falling behind only the Quran. It has been viewed by many commentators as the greatest mystical poem in world literature. The Masnavi is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines. It is a spiritual text that teaches Sufis how to reach their goal of being truly in love with God.
A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language,culture,literature,art and/or identity.
Arthur John Arberry FBA was a British scholar of Arabic literature,Persian studies,and Islamic studies. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College,Cambridge. His English translation of the Qur'an,The Koran Interpreted,is popular amongst academics worldwide.
Divan-i Kabir,also known as Divan-i Shams and Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi,is a collection of poems written by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic MawlānāJalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī,also known as Rumi. A compilation of lyric poems written in the Persian language,it contains more than 40,000 verses and over 3,000 ghazals. While following the long tradition of Sufi poetry as well as the traditional metrical conventions of ghazals,the poems in the Divan showcase Rumi’s unique,trance-like poetic style. Written in the aftermath of the disappearance of Rumi’s beloved spiritual teacher,Shams-i Tabrizi,the Divan is dedicated to Shams and contains many verses praising him and lamenting his disappearance. Although not a didactic work,the Divan still explores deep philosophical themes,particularly those of love and longing.
Shams-i Tabrīzī or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian Shafi'ite poet,who is credited as the spiritual instructor of MewlānāJalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi,also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection,in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī. Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days,before fleeing for Damascus. The tomb of Shams-i Tabrīzīwas recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
William Clark Chittick is an American philosopher,writer,translator,and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi,and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi,Islamic philosophy,and Islamic cosmology. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University.
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar was a scholar of Persian literature,Iranian linguistics and culture,and an expert on Rumi and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.
Iranian studies,also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics,is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization,history,literature,art and culture of Iranian peoples. It is a part of the wider field of Oriental studies.
Abbas Zaryab or 'Abbās Zaryāb was a historian,translator,literature Professor and Iranologist. He was the author of several books,including a life of Muhammad,and articles in The Persian Encyclopedia,Western peer reviewed Journals as well as Iranica.
The Mevlâna Museum,in Konya,Turkey,started life as the dervish lodge (Tekke) of the Mevlevi order,better known as the whirling dervishes. It houses the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi,a Persian Sufi mystic.
Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad,more popularly known as Sultan Walad,was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi,Persian poet,Sufi,Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya (مولویه) order.
Ghadam-Ali Sarami is an Iranian author and poet. He was born in Ramhormoz,a small town in Khuzestan Province,southwest of Iran. In 1986,he received a Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from University of Tehran,Iran. He is an associate professor of Persian language and literature at University of Zanjan and an expert in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh,Tarikh-i Bayhaqi,and Hafez,Sa'di,Rumi,and other masters of Persian literature and poetry.
The Fihi Ma Fihi or Fīhi MāFīhi,lit. ''It Is What It Is" or "In It What Is in It'') is a Persian prose work of 13th century Sufi mystic and Iranian poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī. The book has 72 short discourses.
Jawid Mojaddedi is an Afghan researcher and professor.
Hossein Ziai was a professor of Islamic Philosophy and Iranian Studies at UCLA where he held the inaugural Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies until his passing. He received his B.S. in Intensive Physics and Mathematics from Yale University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University in 1976. Prior to UCLA,Ziai taught at Tehran University,Sharif University,Harvard University,Brown University,and Oberlin College. As Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA,where he taught since 1988,Ziai established an undergraduate major in Iranian in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures—the first such degree in North America—and developed the strongest and most rigorous Iranian Studies program in the U.S.
Ahmed Sudi,also known as Sudi-yi Bosnawi,was a 16th-century Bosnian commentator under the Ottoman Empire. He was the author of several Ottoman Turkish commentaries on Persian classics such as the Masnavi of Rumi,the Gulistan and Bostan of Saadi Shirazi,and The Divān of Hafez. According to Professor of Persian and Islamic studies Hamid Algar,Sudi is "perhaps the most prominent of all Ottoman Persianists".
Ahli Shirazi,full name Muhammad ibn Yusuf Ahli Shirazi,was a Persian poet who lived in Shiraz,Iran from 858 to 942H. He is buried in Hafezieh.
Heshmat Moayyad was a Persian writer,translator and the founder of the University of Chicago's Persian program.
