ʿAbdallāh al-Ansārī
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
Web links
- Literature by and about ʿAbdallāh al-Ansārī in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ansari (Eng.)
- Munajat (Persian)
- Article MONĀJĀT in Encyclopædia Iranica
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Ansārī, ʿAbdallāh al- |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ansārī, ʿAbdallāh ibn Muhammad al- (full name); Pīr-e Herat; عبد الله بن محمد الانصاري (Arabic) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sufi poet of the Persian language |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1006 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Herat |
DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1089 |
Place of death | Herat |