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Istanbul

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

Collection

Fatih

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no. 5378

Contents

Work 1: Fuṣuṣ al-Hikam (  Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏)

LOC subject headings

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Author

 Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

محيى الدين بن عربي‏

Show other names

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (authorised)

Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbn Arabî, Muhittin, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī (variant)

Ibn Surāqah, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, 1165-1240 (variant)

Şeyh-i ekberi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Shaykh al-Akbar, 1165-1240 (variant)

Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 11651240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1240-1165 (variant)

ابن عربي (variant)

ابن عربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن عربي،, 11651240 (variant)

بن العربي (variant)

لإبن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

محيى الدين بن عربي (variant)

Biographical notes

One of the most influential and prolific Sufi thinkers of medieval times, Ibn al-ʿArabī was born in the Spanish region of Murcia on 27 Ramaḍān 560 [1165 CE]. He moved to Seville when he was eight years old and began his formal education in that city. From a young age, Ibn al-ʿArabī became part of the local government, acting as kātib to various governors. It is related that during an illness, he had a vision that made him realise that he has been leaving in ignorance (Jāhiliyya) until that moment and had a mystical awakening that would mark the rest of his life. In search of mystical knowledge, he sought the company of different Sufi Shaykhs, travelling for the next 10 years across the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. He stayed for some time in Tunis, Fez, Cordova where he began to write some of his early works before going to Cairo and then to Jerusalem around the year 598 AH [1202 CE] from where he began his pilgrimage to Mecca. While om ḥajj, he met Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq (the father of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī) and a group of Sufis and Ibn Arabi decided to join them in their trip back to Syria and Anatolia. He arrived in Malatya around 601 AH [1205 CE], at a time when ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāvūs I has been restored as the Sultan of Rum. Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq was invited by the Sultan to the court, where he came accompanied by Ibn al-ʿArabī, who offered advice to the Sultan and both were honoured at the court. Ibn al-ʿArabī resumed his travels again, leaving Anatolia to visit Baghdad and Aleppo and return to Anatolia around 1215 [1215 CE] when he completed the commentary to his Tarjumān al-as̲h̲wāq in between Aksaray and Sivas and then settled for some time in Malatya where he married and have a son. At some point before 1230 [1230 CE], he left Anatolia and re-settled in Damascus under the protection of the Ibn Zakī family of qāḍīs and the Ayyubid court. He died in 1240 [1240 CE] and his body was buried in the mount Qāsiyūn, north of Damascus. Ibn al-ʿArabī is one of the most influential Sufi authors in Anatolia especially die to the diffusion of his idea made by his disciple Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī. Other commentators on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s works such as Dāwūd al-Ḳayṣarī (d. 751/1350) or Ḳuṭb al-Dīn al-Izniḳī also helped to spread his philosophy in the region.

Title

Fuṣuṣ al-Hikam

فصوص الحكم

Notes

The manuscript was written in 627 AH [1229-1230 CE] in the city ofDamascus.

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 1-10

Dimensions of written area

width 6.1cm, height 12.2cm

Hand

Copyist: Abd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmadعبد الله بن محمد بن أحمد

Place

Damascus

Date of copy

14th. century

Work 2: Kitab al-Jalāl wa al-amāl (  Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏)

LOC subject headings

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Author

 Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

محيى الدين بن عربي‏

Show other names

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (authorised)

Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbn Arabî, Muhittin, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī (variant)

Ibn Surāqah, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, 1165-1240 (variant)

Şeyh-i ekberi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Shaykh al-Akbar, 1165-1240 (variant)

Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 11651240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1240-1165 (variant)

ابن عربي (variant)

ابن عربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن عربي،, 11651240 (variant)

بن العربي (variant)

لإبن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

محيى الدين بن عربي (variant)

Biographical notes

One of the most influential and prolific Sufi thinkers of medieval times, Ibn al-ʿArabī was born in the Spanish region of Murcia on 27 Ramaḍān 560 [1165 CE]. He moved to Seville when he was eight years old and began his formal education in that city. From a young age, Ibn al-ʿArabī became part of the local government, acting as kātib to various governors. It is related that during an illness, he had a vision that made him realise that he has been leaving in ignorance (Jāhiliyya) until that moment and had a mystical awakening that would mark the rest of his life. In search of mystical knowledge, he sought the company of different Sufi Shaykhs, travelling for the next 10 years across the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. He stayed for some time in Tunis, Fez, Cordova where he began to write some of his early works before going to Cairo and then to Jerusalem around the year 598 AH [1202 CE] from where he began his pilgrimage to Mecca. While om ḥajj, he met Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq (the father of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī) and a group of Sufis and Ibn Arabi decided to join them in their trip back to Syria and Anatolia. He arrived in Malatya around 601 AH [1205 CE], at a time when ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāvūs I has been restored as the Sultan of Rum. Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq was invited by the Sultan to the court, where he came accompanied by Ibn al-ʿArabī, who offered advice to the Sultan and both were honoured at the court. Ibn al-ʿArabī resumed his travels again, leaving Anatolia to visit Baghdad and Aleppo and return to Anatolia around 1215 [1215 CE] when he completed the commentary to his Tarjumān al-as̲h̲wāq in between Aksaray and Sivas and then settled for some time in Malatya where he married and have a son. At some point before 1230 [1230 CE], he left Anatolia and re-settled in Damascus under the protection of the Ibn Zakī family of qāḍīs and the Ayyubid court. He died in 1240 [1240 CE] and his body was buried in the mount Qāsiyūn, north of Damascus. Ibn al-ʿArabī is one of the most influential Sufi authors in Anatolia especially die to the diffusion of his idea made by his disciple Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī. Other commentators on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s works such as Dāwūd al-Ḳayṣarī (d. 751/1350) or Ḳuṭb al-Dīn al-Izniḳī also helped to spread his philosophy in the region.

Title

Kitab al-Jalāl wa al-amāl

كتاب الجلال و الجمال

Notes

Composed in 601 AH [1204-1205 CE] in Mosul. The book deals with the meaning of God'sattributes and includes references to various Quranic verses.

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 10-30

Dimensions of written area

width 6.1cm, height 12.2cm

Hand

Copyist: Abd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmadعبد الله بن محمد بن أحمد

Place

Damascus

Date of copy

15th. century

Work 3: Lamaʿāt (ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm,-1289? )

LOC subject headings

Persian poetry

Author

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm,-1289?

Show other names

عراقى ، فخر الدين ابراهيم

Fahreddîn-i Irâkî,-1289?

Fahrüddin Eraki, -1289?

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

Lamaʿāt

لمعات

Notes

The most famous work of ʻIrāqī. This work deals mostly with different aspects of Sufism, composed mixing prose and verse and divided in 28 chapters. The work appears to be highly influenced by the work of authors such as Ghazzālī,1058-1111 and Ibn al-ʻArabī,1165-1240‏ . The work was composed in Anatolia and allegedly shown to Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274, who praised its quality. Sara Ethel Wolper has suggested that the manuscript Şehid Ali Paşa_2703, ff. 17-35, which she wrongly quotes as Süleymaniye 2703, was dedicated to the Muʻīn al-Dı̄n Sulaymān, Parwānā, -1277 ( (Wolper, Ethel Sara. Cities and Saints. Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004., pp. 111). However, after re-examining the manuscript, we were not able to find any reference to Muʻīn al-Dı̄n Sulaymān in the text.

The work was composed not after 1274 [-1274 CE]

A commentary on this work was done by Turkah Iṣfahānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1368 or 9-1431 or 2 in 815 AH [1412-1413 CE] entitled z̤ū al-lamaʻāt (ضو اللمعات). See for example British Library add. 16832

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 34-66

Dimensions of written area

width 6.2cm, height 12cm

Hand

Copyist: Ḥamīd b. Alī b. Abī Ṭālib حميد بن علي بن ابي طالب

Place

Damascus

Date of copy

14th. century

Bibliography

Editions

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn. Risālah-ʹi lamaʻāt va Risālah-ʹi iṣṭilāḥāt. Edited by Nūrbakhsh, Javād. Tehran: Khānaqāh-i Niʻmat Allāhī, 1353 [1974].

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn. Lamaʻāt. Edited by Khvājavī, Muḥammad. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Mawlá, 1363 [1984].

Translations

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn and Baljit Singh. Lammāt = The flashes: a Persian treatise on Sufism, written in the 13th century. New Delhi: Sikh Foundation, 2003.

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn. Divine flashes. Edited by Chittick, William C., Peter Lamborn Wilson and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: Paulist Press, 1982.

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn and Ercan Alkan. Lemaat: aşka ve âşıklara dair. Translated by Konuk, Ahmed Avni. Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: İki Harf, 2011.

Studies

Chittick, William C.. "‘Erāqī, Faḵr-al-Dīn Ebrāhīm b. Bozorgmehr Javāleqī Hamadānī." Encylcopaedia Iranica. 8, [n.d.]: 538-540.

Wolper, Ethel Sara. Cities and Saints. Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Work 4: Risālat al-Taṣawuf (ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm,-1289? )

LOC subject headings

Persian poetry

Author

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm,-1289?

Show other names

عراقى ، فخر الدين ابراهيم

Fahreddîn-i Irâkî,-1289?

Fahrüddin Eraki, -1289?

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

Risālat al-Taṣawuf

رسالة التصوف

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 69-71

Dimensions of written area

width 6.2cm, height 12cm

Hand

Copyist: Ḥamīd b. Alī b. Abī Ṭālib حميد بن علي بن ابي طالب

Place

Damascus

Date of copy

14th. century

Bibliography

Editions

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn. Risālah-ʹi lamaʻāt va Risālah-ʹi iṣṭilāḥāt. Edited by Nūrbakhsh, Javād. Tehran: Khānaqāh-i Niʻmat Allāhī, 1353 [1974].

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn. Lamaʻāt. Edited by Khvājavī, Muḥammad. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Mawlá, 1363 [1984].

Translations

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn and Baljit Singh. Lammāt = The flashes: a Persian treatise on Sufism, written in the 13th century. New Delhi: Sikh Foundation, 2003.

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn. Divine flashes. Edited by Chittick, William C., Peter Lamborn Wilson and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: Paulist Press, 1982.

ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn and Ercan Alkan. Lemaat: aşka ve âşıklara dair. Translated by Konuk, Ahmed Avni. Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: İki Harf, 2011.

Studies

Chittick, William C.. "‘Erāqī, Faḵr-al-Dīn Ebrāhīm b. Bozorgmehr Javāleqī Hamadānī." Encylcopaedia Iranica. 8, [n.d.]: 538-540.

Wolper, Ethel Sara. Cities and Saints. Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Work 5: Hilayat al-Abdāl (  Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏)

LOC subject headings

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Author

 Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

محيى الدين بن عربي‏

Show other names

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (authorised)

Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbn Arabî, Muhittin, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī (variant)

Ibn Surāqah, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, 1165-1240 (variant)

Şeyh-i ekberi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Shaykh al-Akbar, 1165-1240 (variant)

Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 11651240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1240-1165 (variant)

ابن عربي (variant)

ابن عربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن عربي،, 11651240 (variant)

بن العربي (variant)

لإبن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

محيى الدين بن عربي (variant)

Biographical notes

One of the most influential and prolific Sufi thinkers of medieval times, Ibn al-ʿArabī was born in the Spanish region of Murcia on 27 Ramaḍān 560 [1165 CE]. He moved to Seville when he was eight years old and began his formal education in that city. From a young age, Ibn al-ʿArabī became part of the local government, acting as kātib to various governors. It is related that during an illness, he had a vision that made him realise that he has been leaving in ignorance (Jāhiliyya) until that moment and had a mystical awakening that would mark the rest of his life. In search of mystical knowledge, he sought the company of different Sufi Shaykhs, travelling for the next 10 years across the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. He stayed for some time in Tunis, Fez, Cordova where he began to write some of his early works before going to Cairo and then to Jerusalem around the year 598 AH [1202 CE] from where he began his pilgrimage to Mecca. While om ḥajj, he met Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq (the father of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī) and a group of Sufis and Ibn Arabi decided to join them in their trip back to Syria and Anatolia. He arrived in Malatya around 601 AH [1205 CE], at a time when ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāvūs I has been restored as the Sultan of Rum. Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq was invited by the Sultan to the court, where he came accompanied by Ibn al-ʿArabī, who offered advice to the Sultan and both were honoured at the court. Ibn al-ʿArabī resumed his travels again, leaving Anatolia to visit Baghdad and Aleppo and return to Anatolia around 1215 [1215 CE] when he completed the commentary to his Tarjumān al-as̲h̲wāq in between Aksaray and Sivas and then settled for some time in Malatya where he married and have a son. At some point before 1230 [1230 CE], he left Anatolia and re-settled in Damascus under the protection of the Ibn Zakī family of qāḍīs and the Ayyubid court. He died in 1240 [1240 CE] and his body was buried in the mount Qāsiyūn, north of Damascus. Ibn al-ʿArabī is one of the most influential Sufi authors in Anatolia especially die to the diffusion of his idea made by his disciple Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī. Other commentators on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s works such as Dāwūd al-Ḳayṣarī (d. 751/1350) or Ḳuṭb al-Dīn al-Izniḳī also helped to spread his philosophy in the region.

Title

Hilayat al-Abdāl

حلية الأبدال

Notes

Written in Ta'ifin599. [1202-1203 CE].

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 71-78

Dimensions of written area

width 6.2cm, height 12.2cm

Hand

Copyist: Ḥamīd b. Alī b. Abī Ṭālib حميد بن علي بن ابي طالب

Work 6: Risālah fī Ishārāt al-Ḥurūf (  Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏)

LOC subject headings

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Author

 Ibn al-ʻArabī,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

محيى الدين بن عربي‏

Show other names

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin,‏ ‎ 1165-1240‏

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (authorised)

Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbn Arabî, Muhittin, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī (variant)

Ibn Surāqah, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, 1165-1240 (variant)

Şeyh-i ekberi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Shaykh al-Akbar, 1165-1240 (variant)

Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 11651240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1240-1165 (variant)

ابن عربي (variant)

ابن عربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن عربي،, 11651240 (variant)

بن العربي (variant)

لإبن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

محيى الدين بن عربي (variant)

Biographical notes

One of the most influential and prolific Sufi thinkers of medieval times, Ibn al-ʿArabī was born in the Spanish region of Murcia on 27 Ramaḍān 560 [1165 CE]. He moved to Seville when he was eight years old and began his formal education in that city. From a young age, Ibn al-ʿArabī became part of the local government, acting as kātib to various governors. It is related that during an illness, he had a vision that made him realise that he has been leaving in ignorance (Jāhiliyya) until that moment and had a mystical awakening that would mark the rest of his life. In search of mystical knowledge, he sought the company of different Sufi Shaykhs, travelling for the next 10 years across the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. He stayed for some time in Tunis, Fez, Cordova where he began to write some of his early works before going to Cairo and then to Jerusalem around the year 598 AH [1202 CE] from where he began his pilgrimage to Mecca. While om ḥajj, he met Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq (the father of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī) and a group of Sufis and Ibn Arabi decided to join them in their trip back to Syria and Anatolia. He arrived in Malatya around 601 AH [1205 CE], at a time when ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāvūs I has been restored as the Sultan of Rum. Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq was invited by the Sultan to the court, where he came accompanied by Ibn al-ʿArabī, who offered advice to the Sultan and both were honoured at the court. Ibn al-ʿArabī resumed his travels again, leaving Anatolia to visit Baghdad and Aleppo and return to Anatolia around 1215 [1215 CE] when he completed the commentary to his Tarjumān al-as̲h̲wāq in between Aksaray and Sivas and then settled for some time in Malatya where he married and have a son. At some point before 1230 [1230 CE], he left Anatolia and re-settled in Damascus under the protection of the Ibn Zakī family of qāḍīs and the Ayyubid court. He died in 1240 [1240 CE] and his body was buried in the mount Qāsiyūn, north of Damascus. Ibn al-ʿArabī is one of the most influential Sufi authors in Anatolia especially die to the diffusion of his idea made by his disciple Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī. Other commentators on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s works such as Dāwūd al-Ḳayṣarī (d. 751/1350) or Ḳuṭb al-Dīn al-Izniḳī also helped to spread his philosophy in the region.

Title

Risālah fī Ishārāt al-Ḥurūf

رسالة في إشارات الحروف

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 77-100

Dimensions of written area

width 6.2cm, height 12.2cm

Hand

Copyist: Ḥamīd b. Alī b. Abī Ṭālib حميد بن علي بن ابي طالب

Work 7: Tamām-i Asāmī ( Anonymous )

LOC subject headings

Persian poetry

Author

Anonymous

Title

Tamām-i Asāmī

تمام الأسامي

Notes

A text composed by Anonymous

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 100-114

Dimensions of written area

width 6.2cm, height 12.2cm

Hand

Copyist: Ḥamīd b. Alī b. Abī Ṭālib حميد بن علي بن ابي طالب

Work 8: Iṣṭilaḥāt al-sūfīyah (   ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī,‏ ‎ -1330?‏)

LOC subject headings

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Author

  ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī,‏ ‎ -1330?‏

عبد الرزاق الكاشانى‏

Show other names

ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, -1330? (authorised)

Abd al-Razzak ibn Muhammad al-Kashi, -1330? (variant)

ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, d. 1330? (variant)

Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abu al-Fada il al-Qashani, -1330? (variant)

Abdarrazaq ibn Abu'l-Fada il Ahmad Gamal ad-Din al-Kasani, -1330? (variant)

Abdu-r-Razzaq, -1330? (variant)

Kāšānī, ʻAbdarrazzāq, -1330? (variant)

Kasani, Abdarrazzaq ibn Abu'l-Fada il Ahmad Gamal ad-Din, -1330? (variant)

Kašāni, Kamāl al-Din ʻAbd al-Razzāq, -1330? (variant)

Ḳāshānī, ʻAbd al-Razzāḳ, -1330? (variant)

Kāshānī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad, -1330? (variant)

Kāshānī, Kamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Razzāq, -1330? (variant)

Ḳāshī, ʻAbd al-Razzāḳ, -1330? (variant)

Kashi, Abd al-Razzak ibn Muhammad, -1330? (variant)

Qāshānī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq, -1330? (variant)

Qashani, Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abu al-Fada il, -1330? (variant)

Qāshī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq, -1330? (variant)

Kâşânî, Abdürrezak, -1330? (variant)

عبد الرزاق الكاشانى (variant)

عبد الرزاق القاشاني (variant)

عبد الرزاق القاشاني،, d. 1330؟ (variant)

عبد الرزاق القاشاني،, ت. 1330؟ (variant)

عبد الرزاق القاشاني،, د. 1330؟ (variant)

عبد الرزاق الکاشاني (variant)

عبدالرزاق الكاشاني (variant)

عبدالرزاق كاشانى (variant)

كمال الدين عبدالرزاق كاشاني (variant)

Title

Iṣṭilaḥāt al-sūfīyah

اصطلاحات الصوفية ‏

Notes

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 115-166

Dimensions of written area

width 6.2cm, height 12.2cm

Hand

Copyist: Ḥamīd b. Alī b. Abī Ṭālib حميد بن علي بن ابي طالب

Physical Description

Dimensions of folio

width 10.5cm, height 18.5cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

15

History

Date of copy

15th century

Provenance

Ownership seal of Bayezid‏ II,‏ Sultan of the Turks,‏ 1447 or 1448-1512‏ (owner)

Ownership seal mark dated 1171 AH [1757-1758 CE]