Muntahā al-Madārik wa Muntahā Lubb kull kāmil wa-‘ārif wa-sālik

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Work 1: Muntahā al-Madārik wa Muntahā Lubb kull kāmil wa-‘ārif wa-sālik (Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century)
LOC subject headings
Sufism
Sufism Turkey
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
Muntahā al-Madārik wa Muntahā Lubb kull kāmil wa-‘ārif wa-sālik
منتهى المدارك و منتهى لب كل كامل و عارف وسالك
Notes
A revised and augmented version of the Mashāriq al-Darārī al-Zuhar fi Kashf Haqā’iq Naẓm al-Durar (مشارق الدراري الزهر في كشف حقائق نظم الدرر), in Arabic. The introduction, in particular, contains a detailed discussion of Sufi terminology, in contrast to the Mashāriq
Composed before 670 AH [-1271 CE], when there is already evidence of it being read in Cairo (Egypt) ( (Chittick, William C. "Farḡāni, Sa‘id al-Din." Encyclopaedia Iranica. , [n.d.].))
Main language of text
Arabic
Foliation
1v-78v
Bibliography
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
240 ff.
Dimensions of folio
width 12.8cm, height 17.6cm
Dimensions of written area
width 8.2cm, height 12.8cm
Columns
1
Ruled lines
19

History

Date of copy
20th. century
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