Shaykh Mehmed Bahaeddin Sultan Veled (1226–1312),
the son of the famous Ṣūfī and poet, Jelaleddin Rumi,
was the author of works in Persian, Anatolian Turkic, and
Greek, and one of the first Asia Minor poets who wrote his
verses in Turkic. Thanks to the latter, he is considered the
“patriarch of Turkish literature”. The first European
Orientalist to research Sultan Veled’s literary legacy was
J. von Hammer (1774–1856), whose verdict was that there
was no demand for works by this poet and, consequently,
they lacked popularity. Hammer wrote that “the Mathnawī
of Sultan Veled, by virtue of its poetic insignificance,
remained as unknown in the lands of the East as the
Mathnawī of Jelaleddin Rumi was famed”. The basis for
this comment was the small number of copies of Sultan
Veled’s works known to Hammer at the time and their
rarity in European repositories, which lead to the Austrian
Orientalist’s final judgment: “The rarity of manuscripts by
Sultan Veled must be explained by a lack of demand for
them”. Both of these conclusions — that Sultan Veled’s
works were unpopular and that they lack aesthetic or artistic
value — were applied by Hammer to both the Persian
and Turkic works of the poet from Konya...
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