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Mashāriq al-Darārī al-Zuhar fi Kashf Haqā’iq Naẓm al-Durar (Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century)

Author

Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century

سعيد الدين الفرغاني

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Sa‘īd al-Dīn al-Farghānī, d. 699/1300

Abū ‘Uthmān Sa‘īd al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Kāsānī al-Farghānī

al-Kāsī

الكاسي

ابو عثمان سعيد الدين محمد بن احمد الكاساني الفرغاني

Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century (authorised)

Faraghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century (variant)

Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 13th cent (variant)

Farghānī, Saʻīd al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century (variant)

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Farghānī, active 13th century (variant)

فرغاني ، محمد بن أحمد (variant)

فرغانى، سعيد الدين بن احمد (variant)

Biographical notes

Probably born around 620 AH [1223 CE] in Kasan in Farghana, an exponent of the thought of Ibn ‘Arabi and the poetry of Ibn Fāriḍ . Early in his career he left Central Asia for Syria; en route he met Ṣadr al-Dīn Qunawī. The details of his career are confused, but he clearly joined Qunawi’s circle and was active in both Anatolia and Syria. We find him in Köprülü 41 as the copyist of one of Ṣadr al-Dīn Qunawī’s works, the I‘jāz al-Bayān (اعجاز البيان), dated 669 AH [1270 CE]. He is claimed to have been the first Sufi to use the term waḥdat al-wujūd, famous for its associations with Ibn ‘Arabi’s thought, although what Farghānī meant by it is not clear ( (Kılıç, Mahmud Erol. "Fergânî, Saidüddin ." TDVİA. XII 1995: 378-82., pp. 379)). Although the circulation of his works suggests that perhaps because of their difficulty, which was noted by Ibn Khaldūn ( (Kılıç, Mahmud Erol. "Fergânî, Saidüddin ." TDVİA. XII 1995: 378-82., pp. 381)) they never obtained the widespread popularity of Qunawī’s, Farghānī seems to have influenced Davud-i Kayseri and later Ismail Ankaravi, d. 1631 in their interpretations of Ibn Fāriḍ . As little is known about his career, how long Farghānī spent in Anatolia is unclear, but his Persian commentary on the tā’iyya of Ibn Fāriḍ , the Mashāriq al-Darārī, is dedicated to Mu‘īn al-Dīn Pervane (d. 1277), the Seljuk vizier and effective Mongol viceroy of Anatolia.

Title

Mashāriq al-Darārī al-Zuhar fi Kashf Haqā’iq Naẓm al-Durar

مشارق الدراري الزهر في كشف حقائق نظم الدرر

Notes

This commentary on Ibn Fāriḍ's famous Sufi poem the tā’iyya (Naẓm al-Sulūk) was dedicated to the Seljuk vizier Mu‘īn al-Dīn Pervane (d. 1277). Place of composition unknown, perhaps Konya. In his introduction, Farghānī quotes Ṣadr al-Dīn Qunawī recounting how he nearly met Ibn Fāriḍ during his journey to Egypt in 630 AH [1232-1233 CE]. On his return, in 643 AH [1245-1246 CE], he heard many attempts to explain the tā’iyya in Syria and Anatolia, but none were as successful as Farghānī’s effort. According to Todd (see (Todd, Richard. The Sufi doctrine of man: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi's metaphysical anthropology. Leiden: Brill, 2014., pp. 42-43)) the preface of this work was written by Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qūnawī, d. 1273 or 4 .

Ateş lists TK_Sul_Aya_4676 as an ms of this work copied in 686 AH [1287-1288 CE]. However, this manuscript is a collection of Kemalpaşazade’s works.

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad. Mashāriq al-Darārī al-Zuhar fi Kashf Haqā’iq Naẓm al-Durar. Edited by Ashtiyani, Jalal al-Din. Tehran: 1357/1978.

Studies

Ateş, Ahmet. "Hicri VI-VIII (XI-XIV asırlarda) Anadolu’da Farsça Eserler." Turkiyat Mecmuası. 8 1945: 114-116.-114-116..

Chittick, William C.. "Farghānī, Sa‘īd al-Dīn." Encyclopedia of Islam. , [n.d.].

Chittick, William C. "Farḡāni, Sa‘id al-Din." Encyclopaedia Iranica. , [n.d.].

Chittick, William, C.. "Spectrums of Islamic Thought: Saʿīd al-Dīn Farghānī on the Implications of Oneness and Manyness." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism. Lewisohn, Leonard, ed. London: 1992, 203-17.

Kılıç, Mahmud Erol. "Fergânî, Saidüddin ." TDVİA. XII 1995: 378-82.

Scattolin, G.. "Al-Farghānī’s Commentary on Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Mystical Poem al-Tāʾiyyat al-Kubrā." MIDEO. 21. 1993: 331-83.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

249 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 15.4cm, height 24.3cm

Dimensions of written area

width 11.5cm, height 18cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

Hand

Copyist:ʽAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʽUmar b. al-Mawlā (عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن عمر بن المولى)

Seal

Seal of Sultan Mahmud I.

History

Date of copy

13th. century

Provenance

Reader's note by Muḥammad b. Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī (محمد بن جمال الدين الحنفي) by colophon