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Sharḥ al-Rubā‘iyyāt

Work 23: Sharḥ al-Rubā‘iyyāt (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings: Qasidas, Persian
Title: Sharḥ al-Rubā‘iyyāt
Notes: In his introduction, the author explained how hi acqaintances asked him to compile an commentary on Sufi poems (jam‘i az ikhwān-i safā wa khillān-i wafā iltimās-i jam‘-i ān sharḥ-i ba‘ḍ-i ghawāmiḍ kih dar ṭayy-i ān minamūdand); he was reluctant to do so owing to preoccupation with other tasks owing to but with sultanic encourage did so. The sultan, identified as Bayezid I, Sultan of the Turks, approximately 1360-1403, is described as "Khāqān al-khāfiqayn wa sultān al-mushraqayn qarn dhū l-qarnayn al-wāṣil min al-‘ilm ilā al-‘ayn alladhī mawlā ‘iyān al-khawāqīn al-‘ālim ‘ayn walā qāḍī nujūm al-mamālik zayn al-hāṣil lahu kamāl nash’atayn al-sulṭān ibn al-sulṭān malādh akāsirat al-zamān ma‘ād qayāṣirat al-dawran al-mukhtaṣṣ bi-‘ināyat al-mulk al-ḥamīd jalāl al-ḥaqq wa l-salṭana wa l-dunyā wa l-dīn Īldirim Bāyazīd". The book was to be sent to the royal library (bi-khizāna-yi ‘āmira-yi kutub-i sulṭāni firista bāshad, p. 580). The ruba ‘iyyāt deal with waḥdat al-wujūd and the theology of Ibn al-ʿArabī, 1165-1240. All the ruba’iyyat are in Persian. The author of the commentary is presumably also the author of the poems.; Patron of the work is Bayezid I, Sultan of the Turks, approximately 1360-1403
Main language of text: Persian
Foliation: pages 576-665