EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - Lesson One

VOCABULARY WORKSHEET
For RUMI RETURNING

NAMES of Rumi, His Father, His Son, His Teacher, and His Masterworks:

Names of Rumi = Mevlana Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
Mevlana = Master (or Our Master)
Jala al-Din (or Jalaluddin) = The Glory of the Faith (sometimes The Keeper of the Religion)
Muhammad = The Prophet of Islam
Rumi = From the land of the Romans or West; non-native
In Afghanistan a.k.a. Mawlana Balkhi = Master from Balkh

Bahauddin Valad = Rumi’s father; one of the great Sufi Shaykhs in Balkh, Khorasan, Rumi’s birthplace; called the “Sultan of Scholars”
Sultan Valad = one of Rumi’s three sons; established Rumi’s legacy by developing the Mevlevi order of Sufism and formalizing the dance of the whirling dervishes that Rumi inspired
Shamsuddin (or Shams-i Tabrizi or just Shams) = Rumi’s Master Teacher; a wandering Sufi dervish from Tabriz; his name is Arabic for “sun”; Rumi used “Shams-i Tabrizi” as his surname for much of his poetry

Rumi's Masterworks:
The Mesnevi (also called the Masnavi or Mathnawi):  one of the masterpieces of Persian literature and one of the most influential of Sufi writings, it contains 25,618 couplets in six books
   
Divan-i Kabir (which means the great collection of poems, also called Divan-i Shams or poems written by Shams) :  Rumi's poems in several different styles of Eastern Islamic poetry (as odes, eulogies, quatrains, etc.); it contains about 3,074 odes and 21, 366 couplets

KEY PEOPLE:

(2:34) Muhammad

(5:24) Alexander the Great

(5:42) Zoroaster

(8:56) Rabi'a al-Adawiyya (also called Rabi’a al-Basri)

(11:15) Abu Bakr

(11:15) Iman Ali

(12:12) Genghis Khan/(12:40) Mongols

(19:39) Ibn al-Arabi

KEY PLACES:

(3:12) Konya, Turkey

(5:05) Balkh, Khorasan

(5:05) Persian Empire

(12:26) Baghdad

(15:39) Mecca

(18:57) Medina

(19:10) the Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem)

(19:30) Damascus

(19:23) Anatolian Seljuk province of Rum

(19:55) Andalusia (Spain)

(26:13) Tabriz

KEY TERMS:

(2:34) Sufism/(17:21) Sufi

(2:34) Qur’an

(3:12) Sheb-I Arus (Turkish) = the Wedding Night

(3:20) Farsi

(4:19) Allāhu akbar (Arabic)

(5:42) Buddhism

(8:00) Sulh-i-kul (Indian)

(10:32) ilm (Arabic)

(11:25) Shaykh (or Shaikh or Sheikh)

(12:12) Crusades

(15:39) the Hajj (Arabic)

(15:55) ummah (Arabic)

(17:22) dervish (Turkish from the Persian darvish)

(20:48) Rahman and Rahim (Arabic)

(29:14) anāl-haqq (Arabic) = I am the Truth (also translated as I am God).