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Rumi Showing His Love for His Young Disciple Hussam al-Din Chelebi

Unknown artist · c. 1590-1599

A Persian miniature imagining Rumi's bond with Hussam al-Din Chelebi, the disciple who later recorded his great poem the Masnavi.

Shows Rumi with his disciple Hussam al-Din Chelebi, who recorded Rumi's dictated poem the Masnavi.

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Miniature painting with Persian-style calligraphy above and below. Seated men in turbans and robes gather on a carpeted dais in a courtyard, while a young man in blue kneels in the foreground picking flowers. Standing figures in orange and green robes stand at right beside a rocky stream with a small yellow-clad figure. Gold-tinted floral borders frame the page.
Unknown artist, Jalal al-Din Rumi Showing His Love for His Young Disciple Hussam al-Din Chelebi, c. 1590-1599. Morgan Library, New York, MS M.466.

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What it is

This miniature painting, made between 1590 and 1599, illustrates a text about the Mevlevi order. It shows turbaned men gathered on a dais while a young man kneels picking flowers nearby. It is part of a manuscript now in the Morgan Library in New York.

Why it matters

The scene points to the close relationship between Rumi and Hussam al-Din Chelebi, the scribe to whom he dictated his long poem the Masnavi. The image was painted centuries after Rumi's death, showing how later generations imagined and honoured the master-disciple relationships central to Sufism.

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  • What does the kneeling young man's position suggest about his role in the scene?
  • Why would a later artist want to depict devotion between teacher and student?
  • What can't this image tell us about the real relationship between Rumi and his disciple?

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