What is Celebi?
Celebi is the title given to the Mevlevi leaders. Among Anatolians Celebi also means gentleman, well-mannered and courteous.

After Mevlana's death his pupil Husameddin Celebi was offered the post. Later it became a tradition to select a post Celebi among the male members of Mevlana's family. The current Celebi, Faruk Hemdem is the 20^th great-grandson of Mevlana (22^nd generation descendant) and he is the 33^rd Celebi to occupy the post.

The list below shows the Celebis in 20^th century only. For a full list please see the Mevlana Family Tree for the full list of Celebis, as well as Mevlana's other direct descendants.

• Faruk Hemdem Celebi (1950 - ) - email him
• Dr. Celaleddin Bakir Celebi (1926 - 1996)
• M. Bakir Celebi (1902 - 1944)
• Amil Celebi (? - ?)
• Bahaaddin Veled Celebi (Izbudak) (? - 1953)
• Abdulhalim Celebi (? - 1925)
• Abdulvahit Celebi (? - 1907)

* Alternative spellings: Mawlana, or Mowlana, and Jalal Al-Din, or Jalaluddin