Sayyid Ali Hamadani

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Hamadani on a Tajik somoni banknote
Mausoleum for Ali Hamadani in Kulob

Sayyid Ali Hamadani ( Persian میر سید علی همدانی Mīr Seyyed ʿAlī Ḥamdānī , b. 1314 Hamadan ; died 1384 ) was an Islamic mystic of Persian descent and a member of the Tariqa Kubrawiyya .

Hamadani came from a noble family and enjoyed a Sufi upbringing during his youth . Later he traveled a lot, from Persia, Khorasan , Afghanistan , Iraq to Sri Lanka . In 1379 he reached Kashmir . According to tradition, he arrived there with a following of seven hundred followers. Since this area had only recently been converted to Islam, Hamadani made a major contribution to bringing Muslim ideas to life in Kashmir.

Hamadani wrote various commentaries on religious and mystical works, including Ibn Arabis Fusus al-hikam . In addition, he wrote numerous works in Arabic and Persian himself .

A chaneqah is in his honor in Srinagar , the complex was built on the foundation walls of an older Hindu temple. The urs (anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint) is celebrated in this city up to the present day. After Hamadani’s death, the Kubrawiyya lost its influence on the Indian subcontinent and over time was ousted by the Chishtiyya , Suhrawardiyya , Qadiriyya and, from around 1600, the Naqschbandīya . Hamadani died in what is now Afghanistan while doing Hajj en route from Srinagar to Mecca .

His tomb is venerated in a mausoleum in Kulob (Tajikistan). A museum there shows Hamadani's manuscripts.

literature

  • Parviz Aḏkāʾi: Hamadāni, Sayyed ʿAli. In: Encyclopædia Iranica
  • Johann Karl Teufel: A biography of the Sheikh 'Alī-i Hamadānī (died 1385): The Xulāṣat ul-manāqib of Maulānā Nūr ud-Dīn Ca'far-i Badaxšī. Brill, Leiden 1962

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SURNAME Hamadani, Sayyid Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic mystic and member of the Tariqa Kubrawiyya (Kubrawiyya Dervish Order)
DATE OF BIRTH 1314
DATE OF DEATH 1384