Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim
mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, the images in three
extant manuscripts of Aflaki's Wondrous Feats of the Knowers of God
provide a unique way to interpret the text. Part One: History and
Context provides the medieval Anatolian historical setting; the
broad contours of literary and artistic works of Islamic
Hagiography; and the specific details of the three manuscripts to
be explored. Part Two: Text and Image proposes a method for
interpreting a hybrid literary-visual document as a grand narrative
of the Family Rumi at the inspirational and ethical core of a
virtuous community: flourishing within a complex Muslim society
under divine providence. Pictures in the three manuscripts were
produced by studios of painters under the patronage of major late
16th-century Ottoman sultans. The result of their efforts is a kind
of 'visualised hagiography' uniquely capable of suggesting
distinctive and often surprising twists on the narratives,
enhancing the text with images of striking beauty and rich detail.
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