Eliza Tasbihi, Hidden in Plain Sight: İsmāʿīl Anḳaravī’s Commentary on Book Seven of Rūmī’s Mathnawī

Eliza Tasbihi, Hidden in Plain Sight: İsmāʿīl Anḳaravī’s Commentary on ‘Book Seven’ of Rūmī’s Mathnawī Monday Majlis Online on the 27 of April 2026 Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Bio: Eliza Tasbihi is a Researcher, Lecturer, and the Specialized Cataloguing Editor for Islamic Manuscripts at McGill University. Her research specializations are early modern Islamicate intellectual history and theology with a focus on textual analysis of Sufi literature and theological writings in Ottoman and Persian, Iran, and the broader Persianate world up to the 19th century. She has published on Sufism, theology, Persian literature, specifically Rūmī’s Mathnawī and its reception in the Persianate world, as well as on classical, medieval, and early modern Sufism. https://mcgill.academia.edu/ElizaTasbihi Abstract: Through untouched manuscripts, Tasbihi’s Hidden in Plain Sight: İsmāʿīl Anḳaravī’s Commentary on ‘Book Seven’ of Rūmī’s Mathnawī (2025) examines the apocryphal Book Seven of the Mathnawī, which has never been studied. Why was it added to Rūmī’s Mathnawī? What were its implications in the Mevlevī centers in 17th-century Ottoman society or in Persian speaking societies in India and Iran? Was Book Seven added on the Indian subcontinent or in the Ottoman Empire? In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here    • Monday Majlis series (Centre for the Study...  . However, we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions : ) If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please write to me ([email protected]). We’ll be happy to welcome you! István T Kristó-Nagy https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/4333-ist...