These routes though sometime not well defined or fixed roads were utilized for spiritual and religious interaction, cultural relations, commercial exchanges and political and military expansion. modern day’s newly independent republics which were formerly known as Soviet Turkistan and adjoining regions which also connects North Western portions of Indian subcontinent. Roughly, this road extends from Rome to China which includes western and eastern Central Asia i.e. Mawlana’s spiritual and philosophical impact centers developed distinctive spiritual cultures and played central roles in trans-regional exchanges.įerdinand Von Richthofen had termed the Trans-Asian overland networks as the “Silk Route” or “Silk Road” in the late nineteenth Century, which includes various primary arteries and secondary capillaries used for a range of commercial and cultural exchanges, including the diffusion of different religious and socio-cultural ideas, trends and traits including Sufism from the boarders of Europe to Eastern Asia, encompassing Central and South Asia.
The region of origin and emergence of Mawlana Rumi was traditionally to a certain extent similar to the region of Buddhist expansion alongside the great arteries of the Northern and Southern Routes of the Indian subcontinent, the Old Road to Bactria, and passageways through the mountain valleys of northern Pakistan. This specially includes his poetry, mystic writings and traditions, and the writings of those of the region who followed the path of Mawlana, and to mention a few among many of mystics and poets are like Jami, Bu-Ali Shah Qalandar and Iqbal.
Besides, how his legacy has left its mark on the different and diverse facets of intellect and life in referred part of the world. The proposed paper aims to encompass the spiritual and intellectual voyage of Mawlana during his life time as well as the virtual journey of his legacy afterwards in the region. This region, unlike the West where Mawlana is mostly discovered in recent time besides popular renderings which created the appreciation of Rumi the mystic, boasts the great understanding of the religious and spiritual traditions from which the great mystic emerged.
The great Sufi poet and mystic Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s poetry, philosophy, message and teaching has been inspiration for the whole humanity for over seven centuries, but the greatest imprint of his personality can be seen on the region traversed by the silk route.
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