Tadhkirat al-Auliya

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Tadhkirat al-Auliya ( Persian تذکرة الاولیا/ Taḏkirat al-auliyāʾ ) is a hagiographic collection written by the Persian poet and mystic Fariduddin Attar about the lives of famous Sufis and their miracles ( keremat ). It begins with a biography of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (Jafar Sadiq), the sixth Imam of the Shia , and ends with the mystic Hallaj (Mansur al-Hallaj), the Sufi martyr , who is considered the most important literary source about his life . The work was of great influence on later generations of mystics. It contains many episodes from the lives of Sufi masters from Khorasan .

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson and Arthur John Arberry did their best to research the work. The translation of Arberry ( Muslim Saints and Mystics ) was included in the UNESCO collection of representative works .

The work contains chapters on the following people:

List of biographies

literature

  • Farid al-Din Attar. Muslim Saints and Mystics, tr. AJ Arberry , Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966 (many reprints); Penguin Group, 1990. ( Persian Heritage Series 1) ( online edition ; PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • Muslim saints and mystics; Farīd al-Dīn'Aṭṭār; Hadayatullah Pretty ; Kreuzlingen: Heinrich Hugendubel, 2002. Diederichs Yellow Row , 173
  • Fariduddin Attar: Early Islamic Mystics. From Fariduddin 'Attar's "biography of the saints": Traditions and statements. Based on the edition by Reynold A. Nicholson. 2008
  • Farid ad-Din 'Attar's Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis: Translated with an Introduction by Paul Losensky ( Classics of Western Spirituality ) (2009) ( online excerpt )

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References and footnotes

  1. ^ In addition to German spellings, English alternative spellings (selection) were also given in brackets.
Tadhkirat al-Auliya (alternative names of the lemma)
Taḏkerat al-awliāʾ; Taẕkirat al-awliyā; Tadhkerat al-Awlīya; Tazkirat al-Awliyā; تذکرة الاولیا; Tadhkirat al-Awliya; Tazkerat-ol-Owliya; Taẕkirat al-awliyā; Taḏkerat al-awlīāʾ