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Crazy As We Are - Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
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MEVLANA CELALEDDIN RUMI
by Dr. Nevit O. Ergin
Mevlana Celaleddin (Celal) Rumi is one of the greatest mystics of all time—bigger than life, yet close to humanity, and able to dissolve all religious and racial boundanes.
Mevlana lived in Asia Minor in the 13th century. All of his earthly beginnings are surrounded by controversy, including his date of birth. The histonan Eflaki puts it as September 29, 1207. However, by Mevlana's own account in Fihi Mafih, the siege of Semerkand took place in 1203, and he was there. Moveover, according to Golpinarli (1985), Mevlana met Shems of Tebnz on November 26, 1244; indirectly in his Divan he refers to meeting Shems when he was 62 years old. This puts his birthday as June 6, 1184.¹
There is also serious doubt as to Mevlana’s father's kinship to First Caliph Ebu Bekr² or his mother's to the Kharezm-Shah’s.³
On the other hand, there is no controversy about the presence of tumultuous religious and political forces throughout Asia Minor at the end of the 12th century.
Immediately after the Chnstian Crusades the Seljug Turks reached their zenith, controlling all of Asia Minor, Persia and, in the 10th and 11th centunes, part of Asia. They were Islamic, Turkic people. Although the Arabs brought Islam to the Persians (the most ancient people of the Middle East), Arabic Islam did not conquer the Turks. On the contrary, the Turks entered the Islamic world as conquerors. Some of them freely converted in their homeland.⁴
The declining stages of the Seljug dynasty in the area of the Persian Gulf brought the Kharezm-Shahs to major power in the whole region, this time from east to west. This is significant for a number of reasons.
First, the Kharezm-Shahs were notonously involved in slaying venerable saints and scholars who did not agree with their way of thinking. During this period, however, some of the most unforgettable spiritual members of the human race lived and flourished, including Mevlana’s father.
Second, one of the Kharezm-Shahs challenged the Caliph’s position as Abbasid of Baghdad (the religious leader of Islam), fought with religious leaders who were of Persian origin, and declared a Shiite Arab as Caliph. This had political implications as well. While all this bickering was going on among the Islamic Turks, Genghis Khan, although still busy with the war of the Kin Empire, had already solidified his power, having taken part of China. He was looking for adventure in more fertile lands westward.
Genghis Khan lived in the Mongolian city of Karakorum (Black Sand) in a haphazardly built, ugly city, while the neighbonng Kharezmian empire included beautiful cities such as Semerkand, Balkh, Herat, and Boukhara, center of Islam’s academies and mosques.