Rumi's biographies

Critical discourse analysis of Rumi's biographies

By Mahmood Fotoohi.
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This article attempts to show two different portrait of Jalal Al-Ddin Movlavi (1207-1273 A.D) through his main works and his biographies. And discuses how biographers did construct a social discourse from Rumi's spiritual heritage, and how did they establish a powerful ideology and social organization. The tree famous biographies of Jalal al-Ddin have been studied closely in critical discourse analysis method in orders to discus the formation procedure of Movlaviyan sect in Anatolia. This study, shows the first biography, Valad Nameh (1291 A.D.) shows a real image of Jalal Al-Ddin as a moral and spiritual Sufi, the second text Resale-ye Sepahsalar (ac. 1291-1312 A.D) have made a mystical protagonist and the third text Managheb al- Arefin (ac. 1353 A.D) exhibited Jalal Al_Ddin and his successors as powerful saints who perform great miracles, and how the biographers constitute an ideological sect and social discourse from the mystical experiences.
Key words:
Movlavi's biographies, critical discourse analysis, ideology, power

say and say

They bring shame and dishonor, when speak.
So they mean look us such an ugly we are!
When they speak Just keep still.
Let them to say and say and die.
They do die, because their words don't come from their expression and experience. (Shams of Tabriz, the Rumi's master. Maghalat. P. 643)