مولوي پژوهي و مولوي پژوهان در كشورهاي انگليسي زبان

Study of Rumi and Rumi-Researchers in English Speaking Countries

The subject of this paper relates to comparative literature and the impact the literary figures, thinkers and illustrators have taken from Persian literary works; especially Rumiʹs most significant and prominent works. The method of research in this essay is referential and inductive. We have made an attempt to become familiar with the great American and English men of letters; ones who have compiled important works through either translation or adaptation and made a serious effort to introduce the Persian literature, especially Rumiʹs poetry in the English speaking countries. Since the eighteenth century, and following movements such as studying Iran, Islam, and the East, Persian literature was noticed and therefore some of the literary men, scientists, and illustrators begun translating and adapting the Persian literary works. It was in the same century that the study of Rumiʹs works became significant. The English and American Transcendentalists both idealized the school of Transcendentalism through studying and having researches on Rumiʹs works. It was about late nineteenth century, in 1870, that Mankar Daniel Canoy published The Sacred Anthology of Oriental Texts. Some of Rumiʹs stories stated the ideals of social moral and behavioral issues. William R. Alger, one of Emersonʹs friends, published The First American Anthology of Oriental Literature. Edward J. Brown translated the prose introduction of The First Volume of Massnavi into English. The climax of studies on Rumiʹs works was done by Reynold Elaine Nicholson; who published eight books for the interpretation and paraphrase of Massnavi and actually devoted fifteen years of his life to this issue. Arthur J. Arbery is counted as one of the great thinkers in the field of Rumi studies. James J.Koan, an art teacher, rewrote fifty of the selected poems from Nicholsonʹs Poetry- taken from Shams Tabriziʹs Book of Poetry- in a modern poetic structure. And finally Andrew Harroy created some works as memorials of Rumiʹs works