Rumi

Studies illustrated 16th-century Ottoman manuscripts of a major hagiography of Rumi and his spiritual descendants Includes 70 colour images, showing all of the paintings from the three manuscripts, accompanied by a summary of the text illustrated in each pictureFocuses on the specific relationships between literary narrative and its visual representation in late medieval Islamic artProvides Anatolian and Ottoman historical background as context for the life story of Rumi and the Mawlawi Sufi ord