No matter what field of science, contemplation and art it is produced in, no work can be considered and fully understood independently of the masters and the environment. Even exceptional figures whose influence has transcended eras and continents, such as Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (d. 672/1273), who gave his name to Mevleviyeh, who produced works with founding and carrying qualities, are definitely the product of their social environment. Because, like many of his peers, this great genius, thanks to his broad knowledge and strong ability to express himself, combined and reconciled the spiritual heritage of his predecessors and the thoughts and practices of his contemporaries, kneaded them in his mind, developed them and painted them in his own color. His family, education, teachers, friends, opponents, the tradition he was a member of, the journeys he went on, the problems he encountered, the difficulties he faced, the relationships he established, the characteristics stemming from his nature, etc. were all influential in this process. When we examine Mevlana with the prosopographic method and a perspective that looks at the forest but never neglects the trees, we encounter the profile of a scholar, jurist, preacher, Sufi, poet and judge of Khorasan-Belkh origin, who played important roles in the shaping of the religious-intellectual structure and life of Seljuk Anatolia, and whose own personality was shaped within this structure and life. Mevlana, who spent two-thirds of his fruitful sixty-six-year life, which coincided with the prosperous and declining periods of the Anatolian Seljuks, in the Darülmülk Konya and visited various towns in Anatolia and the Middle East on various occasions, did not live in isolation from the people and life, despite the fact that he skillfully chanted high intellectual ideas in urban cultural environments; From an early age, he acquired a very wide and colorful social circle that included many segments and layers of society such as Sufi, scholar, jurist, ahi, hafiz, imam, painter, architect, musician, physician, merchant, emir, ruler, man of letters, poet, womanizer, priest, and developed a dense network of relationships. Let us state right away that we owe the significant information about some of the people with the above-mentioned qualities -even though this information sometimes seems like fragments of information, it has the potential to confirm, correct and complete the data of other sources- to Mevlevi sources. In other words, these people have come into the field of view of researchers because they took part in Mevlana’s world as disciples, lovers or opponents, or because they developed various relationships with the Mevlevi circle. Therefore, by examining the Seljuk world of Mevlana, we can conduct large-scale analyses of the individuals, institutions and activities that shaped the sociocultural and intellectual structure of Anatolia in the 13th century and develop some new opinions. A collective and interdisciplinary period-environment reading that will take into account primary sources and modern studies related to Mevlana and Mevleviyeh will serve to understand the exceptional place of this important figure in Turkish thought and cultural history, starting from Seljuk Anatolia, in a more in-depth and multi-dimensional way. To this end, we are expecting contributions from you, our valued scholars, to the International Symposium on the Seljuk World of Mevlana – A Prosopography of Mawlana – to be organized by the Seljuk University Institute of Seljuk Studies (SUISS) in Konya on 12-14 December 2024.