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Sharḥ Mawāqi‘ al-Nujūm (Mu’ayyid al-Dīn al-Jandī)

Author

Mu’ayyid al-Dīn al-Jandī

مؤيد الدين الجندی

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Abu ‘Abdallāh Mu’ayyid al-Dīn b. Maḥmūd b. Sā’id al-Jandī

ابو عبدالله مؤيد الدين بن محمود بن صاعد الجندی

Mu’ayyad (or Mu’ayyad al-Dīn) b. Maḥmūd b. Ṣā‘id al-Adībī al-Ṣūfī

مؤيد بن محمود بن صاعد الاديبي الصوفي

Jandī, Muʼayyid al-Dīn (authorised)

Jindī, Muʼayyid al-Dīn (variant)

Jundī, Muʼayyid al-Dīn (variant)

جندى ، مؤيد الدين (variant)

جندي، مؤيد الدين (variant)

مؤيد الدين الجندى (variant)

Biographical notes

Mu’ayyid al-Dīn al-Jandī was a member of the circle of Sadr al-Din Qunawi , according to Aflākī and Jāmī, and served him for 10 years. After Sadr al-Din Qunawi 's death in 673 AH [1274 CE], he went to Baghdad; where he writes his lost commentary on Ibn ʿArabī's Mawāqi‘ al-Nujūm (مواقع النجوم). Following this, he went to Sinop, where the Nafḥat al-Rūḥ (نفحت الروح) composed. Various dates are given by late sources for his daeath, but the most reliable evidence comes from an ms of his Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam (شرح فصوص الحكم), Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Laleli, n. 1417, which states the work was composed in Tabriz, where the author died on 20 Dhu’l-Hijja 711 [1312-03 CE].al-Jandī's major work was Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam (فصوص الحكم), which was the source for later commentaries, including Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed’s al-Muntaha (المنتهي) and Jāmī’s Naqd al-Nuṣuṣ fi Sharḥ Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ (نقد النصوص في نقسه الفصوص). In both al-Qasida al-Lamiyya (القسده اللميه) and the Nafhat al-Ruh (نفرت الروح) he shows an explicit concern to make Sufi knowledge available to the non-Arabic speakers who have been excluded from it.

Title

Sharḥ Mawāqi‘ al-Nujūm

شرح مواقع النجوم

Notes

a commentary on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s work Mawāqi‘ al-Nujūm. in 673/1274

Date of composition is Shawwal 673 [1274 CE]

Place of Composion: Baghdad.

Lost works known through references in the Nafḥat al-Rūḥ and the Dhayl al-Qasida al-Lamiyya

Bibliography

Studies

Aflaki, Ahmed. Manaqib al-‘Arifin. Edited by Yazıcı, Tahsin. , [n.d.].

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902.

Nur al-Din Jami, . Nafahat al-Uns min Hadrat al-Quds. Edited by ‘Abidi, Mahmud. Tehran: 1390, 554, 556-8.

Uludağ, Süleyman. "Cendi." TDVIA. VII, [n.d.]: 361-362.

Physical Description

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n/a ff.

History

Date of copy

20th. century