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Work 1: al-Durra al-Muntasira fi'l-Ahadith al-mushtahira ()

Author

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Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti

Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 (authorised)

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 (variant)

Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 (variant)

Jalālayn, 1445-1505 (variant)

Suyūṭī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Kamāl, 1445-1505 (variant)

Suyūṭī, Imām Jalāl al-Dīn, 1445-1505 (variant)

Alsuyuti, Jalal al-Din, 1445-1505 (variant)

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Kamāl al-Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 (variant)

Jalálu'ddín a's Suyúti, 1445-1505 (variant)

Asyūṭī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1445-1505 (variant)

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Asyūṭī, 1445-1505 (variant)

Suĭuti, Dzhalal ad-Din Abd ar-Rakhman, 1445-1505 (variant)

Dzhalal ad-Din Abd ar-Rakhman as-Suĭuti, 1445-1505 (variant)

Sui̐uti, Jălălăddin Ăbd ăr-Răḣman, 1445-1505 (variant)

Jălălăddin Ăbd ăr-Răḣman as-Sui̐uti, 1445-1505 (variant)

Celâlüddin es-Suyutı̂, 1445-1505 (variant)

Suyūt̤ī, Jalāluddīn, 1445-1505 (variant)

Sui︠u︡tiĭ, Zhaloliddin, 1445-1505 (variant)

أبو الفضل جلال الدين عبد الرحمن السيوطي (variant)

ابو الفضل جلال الدين عبد الرحمن ابي بكر السيوطي (variant)

السيوطي، جلال الدين،, 1445-1505 (variant)

السيوطي،, 1505-1445 (variant)

السيوطي،, 1445-1505 (variant)

جلال الدين السيوطي (variant)

جلال الدين عبد الرحمن السيوطي (variant)

جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي (variant)

جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن بكر بن محمد السيوطي (variant)

سيوطى،, 1445-1505 (variant)

سيوطي، جلال الدين عبد الرحمن (variant)

سيوطي، جلال الدين،, 1445-1505 (variant)

سيوطي، عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر،, 1445-1505 (variant)

سيوطي،, 1405-1505 (variant)

عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي (variant)

‏سيوطى، جلال‌الدّين،‏, 1445-1505 (variant)

Title

al-Durra al-Muntasira fi'l-Ahadith al-mushtahira

Notes

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

1b-54 ff.

Work 2: al-Qirab fi Mahabbat al-'arab ()

Author

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Abd al-Rahim b. Abi Bakr b. Ibrahim al-'Iraqi

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289? (authorised)

Araghi, FakhreDin Ebrahim, -1289? (variant)

Araqi, Fakhr al-din, -1289? (variant)

ʻArāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289? (variant)

Eraqi, Fakhroddin Ebrahim, -1289? (variant)

ʻErâqi, Faxr al-Din, -1289? (variant)

Fahreddîn-i Irâkî, -1289? (variant)

Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʻIrāqī, -1289? (variant)

Fakhruddin ʻIraqi, -1289? (variant)

Hamadâni, Faxr al-Din ʻErâqi, -1289? (variant)

Hamadānī ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289? (variant)

Irâkî, Fahreddîn, -1289? (variant)

Iraki, Fakhriddin Ibragim, -1289? (variant)

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, d. 1289? (variant)

ʻIraqi, Fakhruddin, -1289? (variant)

عراقى ، فخر الدين ابراهيم همدانى (variant)

عراقى، فخر الدين ابراهيم (variant)

عراقى، فخرالدين (variant)

فخر الدين ابراهيم عراقى (variant)

فخر الدين عراقى (variant)

Biographical notes

He was born in the town of Kumijān (Iran), not far from the city of Hamadan, apparently in 610 [1213-1214 CE]. In his youth he studied the Qur’ān, Hadith and Islamic theology (kalam). However, he is better known for his literary skills as a Sufi poet that travelled extensively from Pakistan to Anatolia during his lifetime. He began teaching in his native Hamadan (Iran) when he met a group of Qalandar dervishes and abandoned his activities to travel with them all the way to Multān (Pakistan) in the year 1230 [1230 CE]. It was in that city where he allegedly became a disciple of the Sufi master Bahāʼ al-Dīn Zakariyyā, 1170?-1262? ,  بهاء الدين زكريا, who at the time was the leader of the Suhrawardīyah Sufi Order. In fact, ʻIrāqī seems to have married the shaykh’s daughter and had a son with her named Kabīr al-Dīn, d. after 1289, کبیر الدین. Under the auspice of Bahāʼ al-Dīn Zakariyyā, 1170?-1262? , ʻIrāqī stayed in Multān (Pakistan) for 17 years dedicated to writing poetry. After the dead of the Bahāʼ al-Dīn Zakariyyā, 1170?-1262? in 1268 [1268 CE], he seems to have lost the support of the members of the order and left Multān (Pakistan) by sea at the age of 24. First he went to Arabia where he performed hajj and then all the way to Anatolia, where he joined Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274 in Konya (Turkey) and then became close to Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 and his followers. He was under the protection and patronage of Muʻīn al-Dı̄n Sulaymān, Parwānā, -1277 and Shams al-Dīn Juwaynī, d. 1285 until these two were accused of treason against the Mongols and the later was executed in 1277 [1277 CE]. The fall of his patron seems to have been behind the escape of Iraqi to Sinop and from there to Egypt, where he found refuge under the Mamluk Sultan Baybars al-Manṣūrī, approximately 1245-1325. He gained a high status at the court of the Mamluks and then moved from Egyptto Damascus where he re-joined his son (who has stayed in Multan after Iraqi’s departure). He fell ill shortly after his arrival in Syria and died on 8 Dhu al-Qa'dah 688 [1289 CE] at the age of 78.

Title

al-Qirab fi Mahabbat al-'arab

القرب في محبة العرب

Notes

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

57b-75b ff.

Work 3: Manāhij al-tawassul fī mabāhij al-tarassul (عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن علي بن احمد البسطامي الانطاكي)

LOC subject headings

Islamic occultism

Author

عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن علي بن احمد البسطامي الانطاكي

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‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. ‘Alī b. Aḥmad al-Bisṭāmī al-Anṭākī (d.c. 859/1455)

Bisṭāmī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1380-1454 (authorised)

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Bisṭāmī, approximately 1380-1454 (variant)

Bisṭāmī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1380-1454 (variant)

Busṭāmī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1380-1454 (variant)

عبد الرحمن البسطامي (variant)

Biographical notes

‘Abd al-Rahman Bistami, born in Antakya, was one of the leading intellectual figures in the Ottoman lands in the early fifteenth century [1400-1415 CE]. After an education in Cairo, he moved to Bursa at an unknown date. According to a note on fol. 4b, he was already present in the time of Sultan Bayezid I. At any rate, in Bursa he received the patronage of Sultan Murad II. He is best known for his promotion of the ‘ilm al-ḥurūf (science of letters), in which he drew heavily on the works of al-Būnī. His vast oeuvre, however, entirely in Arabic, also encompassed sciences as varied as literature, Sufism, medicine and history. It has as yet barely been studied. The identification of Bistami’s works is complicated than sections of several seem to have republished in abridged versions made by the author, and several are also known under diverse titles. For this reason, it is not always possible to link the extensive list of works given by Hajji Khalifa with known mss. Much further work is required; consult also the list given in Brockelmann. As for the author’s death date, although commonly given as 858 AH [1454 CE], it must have been no earlier than Sha‘ban 859 [1455 CE], the date when the Naẓm al-Sulūk was being written (cf. (Fleischer, Cornell H.. "Ancient wisdoms and new sciences: prophecies at the Ottoman court in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." In Falnama: The Book of Omens. Farhad, Massumeh and Serpil Bağcı, ed. Washington, DC: 2009, 232-243., pp. 232))

Title

Manāhij al-tawassul fī mabāhij al-tarassul

مناهج التوسل في مباهج الترسل

Notes

It deals with ‘ilm al-huruf and ritual practices, divided into 46 chapters (laṭīfa)

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

77b-134a ff.

Date of copy

possibly 15th. century

Bibliography

Editions

Ṣafadī, Salāḥ al-Dīn. Jinān al-Jinās. Istanbul: 1299.

Studies

Algar, Hamid. "Besṭāmi." EIr. , [n.d.].

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Leiden: Brill, 1902, 232-233, 324.

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. "İlk Dönem Osmanlı İlim ve Kültür Hayatında İhvânu’s-Safâ ve Abdurrahmân Bistâmî." Dîvân İlmî Araştırmalar Dergisi. 1996/2: 229-240.

Fleischer, Cornell H.. "Seer to the sultan: Haydar-i Remmal and Sultan Süleyman." In Cultural Horizons: A Festschrift in Honor of Talat Halman. Warner, Jayne, ed. Istanbul and Syracuse: 2001, 290-299.

Fleischer, Cornell H.. "Ancient wisdoms and new sciences: prophecies at the Ottoman court in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." In Falnama: The Book of Omens. Farhad, Massumeh and Serpil Bağcı, ed. Washington, DC: 2009, 232-243.

Gril, Denis. "L’énigme de la Sagara al-nu‘maniyya fî l-dawla al-‘utmâniyya, attribuée à Ibn ‘Arabî." Lellouch, B. and S. Yérasimos, ed. Paris: 1999, 133-151. (English trans. “The enigma of the Shajara al-nu‘mâniyya fi’l-dawla al-‘uthmâniyya, attributed to Ibn ‘Arabî ,” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 43 (2008): 51-74)

Gril, Denis. "Ésétorisme contre heresie: ‘Abd al-Rahmân al-Bistâmî, un representant de la science des lettres a Bursa dans la première moitié du XV siècle." In Syncrétismes et hérésies dans l’Orient seldjoukide et ottoman (XIVe-XVIII siècle). Veinstein, Gilles, ed. 2005, 183-195.

Koushki, Melvin. "The Quest for a Universal Science: The Occult Philosophy of Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Turka Iṣfahānī (1369-1432) and Intellectual Millenarianism in Early Timurid Iran." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 2012. (especially on lettristic elements)

Smith, M.. "al-Bistami, ‘Abd al-Rahman." EI2. , [n.d.].

Taşköprülü-zade, . al-Shaqā’iq al-Nu‘māniyya fi ‘Ulamā’ al-Dawla al-‘Uthmāniyya. Edited by Furat, Ahmed Subhi. Istanbul: 1985, 46-47. (mainly reliant on Ibn Ḥajar, al-Durar al-Kāmina)

Çağrıcı, Mustafa. "Bistami, Abdurrahman b. Muhammed." TDVIA. VI, [n.d.]: 218-219.

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