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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Bayezıt Devlet Kütüphanesi

Collection

Veliyüddin Koleksiyonu

Shelfmark

no. 3601

Contents

Work 3: Poems (Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr, -1237 or 1238)

LOC subject headings

Sufi poetry, Persian

Author

Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr, -1237 or 1238

Show other names

اوحدالدين كرمانى، حامد بن ابى الفخر

Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, d. 1238

Evhadüddîn-i Kirmâni

Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr, -1237 or 1238 (authorised)

Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr, d. 1237 or 8 (variant)

Evhadü'd-Din, -1237 or 1238 (variant)

Evhadü'din Hâmid b. Ebi'l-Fahr el-Kirmanı̂, -1237 or 1238 (variant)

Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, -1237 or 1238 (variant)

Kirmânı̂, -1237 or 1238 (variant)

Kirmānī, Awḥad al-Dīn Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr, -1237 or 1238 (variant)

Şeyh Evhadü'd-din-i Kirmânı̂, -1237 or 1238 (variant)

اوحد الدين كرمانى، حميد بن ابى الفخر (variant)

اوحدالدين كرمانى، حامد بن ابى الفخر (variant)

Biographical notes

A famous Iranian Sufi who left Kerman at an early age and lived first in Baghdad, where he taught Shafi law at the Hakkâkiyye Medresesi. He later became a disciple of Rukn al-Din Sujāsī .and consequently connected teachings of Quṭb al-Dīn Abharī. and ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd Allāh Suhrawardī, 1097-1168, being the former who introduced him to Sufism and inspired him to travel. During his travels, he met apparently with Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 and later visited Anatolia at the beginning of the 13th century [1200-1215 CE] where his beliefs became influenced by other Sufi masters he met in his journeys. Among them Shams-i Tabrīzī -1247, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274 and Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʻIrāqī, -1289?. (See (Weischer, B.M.. "Kirmānī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.)). He is considered as a shāhidbāzī Sufi because of his conception of mystical philosophy based on “the contemplation of the divine beauty in earthly forms, preferably in beautiful boys” (See (Weischer, B.M.. "Kirmānī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.)). During the last years of his life he lived in Baghdad where he received the support of the ʿAbbāsid caliph Mustaʻṣim in 632 AH [1234-1235 CE]. The date of his death, according to Jāmī, 1414-1492, is 3 Shaʿbān 635 [1238 CE]

Title

Poems

Notes

A collection of poems containing sayings and teachings of the author.

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 114v-120v

Bibliography

Editions

Kirmānī, Awḥad al-Dīn Hāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr. Heart's witness: the Sufi quatrains of Awḥaduddīn Kirmānī. Edited by Weischer, Bernd Manuel. Translated by Lamborn Wilson, Peter. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1978.

Studies

Azamat, Nihat. "EVHADÜDDÎN-i KİRMÂNİ." Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi. 11, [n.d.]: 518-520.

De Nicola, Bruno. "The ladies of Rūm: A hagiographic view of women in thirteenth and fourteenth century Anatolia." Journal of Sufi Studies. 3, no. 1 2014.

Weischer, B.M.. "Kirmānī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.

Physical Description

Number of folios

ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 16cm, height 23.9 cm

Dimensions of written area

width 12cm, height 17.5cm

History

Date of copy

16th century or later