ʿAbdallāh al-Ansārī

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ʿAbdallāh ibn Muhammad al-Ansārī ( Arabic عبد الله بن محمد الانصاري, Persian خواجه عبدالله انصاری Chawadsche Abdollah Ansari ), also known as Pīr-e Herat (پیر هرات, ' Pīr of Herat', born in Herat in 1006 ; died on March 8, 1089 in Herat), was a Sufi scholar and Koran exegete of the Hanbali teaching direction. He wrote his works partly in Arabic and partly in Persian .

His grave in Herat, the second largest city in Afghanistan , is one of the major pilgrimage centers that are visited by thousands of pilgrims and Sufi devotees each year.

Works

  • Manāzil as-sāʾirīn ("Stations of the Travelers"), Sufi manual in Arabic
  • Dhamm al-kalām wa-ahli-hī ("rebuke of the Kalām and his followers"), Arabic
  • Kašf al-Asrār ("Discovery of the Secrets"), a commentary on the Koran , Persian.
  • Ṭabaqāt aṣ-Ṣūfīya ("Generations of the Sufis"), Persian adaptation of the Sufi biographical collection of Abū ʿAbd ar-Rahmān as-Sulamī .
  • Munāǧāt ("invocations of God") in Persian rhyming prose

See also

literature

  • Abdullah Ansari of Herat - An Early Sufi Master; By A. G. Ravan Farhadi and ʻAbd Allaah ibn Muḥammad Anṣārī al-Harawī; Published by Routledge, 1996
  • The Sufi Influence and Other Essays; By Zia Ahmed, Ẓahīr Aḥmad Ṣiddīqī Published by Educational Book House , 1982 Original from University of Michigan
  • The Book of Wisdom - Khwaja Abdullah Ansari; From Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Victor Danner, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Anṣārī al-Harawī
  • S. de Laugier de Beaureceuil, “Abdallah Ansari,” Encyclopædia Iranica , I / 2, pp. 187-190; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abdallah-al-ansari

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