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Work 3: Mashāriq al-Darārī al-Zuhar fi Kashf Haqā’iq Naẓm al-Durar (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

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.

This part contains extracts from the Introduction to the Mashāriq al-Darārī

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

1v-40r

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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Work 7: Risāla-yi ʿIshq va ʿaql (Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257

نجم الدين أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد رازى

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Dāyah, Najm al-Dīn

Necmüddin Dâye

Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257 (authorised)

ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Dāyah, Najm al-Dīn, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Daye, Necmeddin, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Najm al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Najm al-Dīn Dāyah, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Najm Rāzī, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Necmeddin Daye, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Necmüddin Dâye, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Najm al-Dīn, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد رازى, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين الرازي، عبد الله بن محمد, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين رازى، عبد الله بن محمد, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين رازى، عبدالله بن محمد, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Biographical notes

Born in 573 AH [1177 CE] in the city of Ray (Iran), Najm al-Dīn Rāzī was a Sufi master belonging to the Kubrawiyya order that became highly influential in Iran, Anatolia and Central Asia from the 14th century [1300-1399 CE] onwards. According to Hamid Algar, he was a Sunni follower of the Ash'arite theology but advocating for the necessity of having a mentor (pīr, shaikh) and the proper regard for the rules and rites of Sufi hospices (khānqah). In 1202 [1202 CE], he left his hometown to travel in Egypt, Syria and Khurāsān (Iran), where he met Najm al-Din Kubrā, d. 1221, who in turn assigned him to one of his disciples Majd al-Dīn Baghdādī, d. 1204. He returned to western Iran a few years later before, apparently forced by the advance of the first Mongol Invasion of Khurāsān (Iran), travelling around 1221 [1221 CE] to Central Anatolia via Hamadān, Irbīl and Diyarbakır, to settled initially in the city of Kayseri. In Seljuq Anatolia he met some of the prominent Sufi scholars of the period. He had encounters with Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar Suhrawardī, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī and Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī. While in Anatolia he sought patronage at the Seljuq court and composed the Mirṣād al-ʻibād, one recension of which he dedicated to Sultan Kayqubad I (see (Rāzī, Najm al-Dīn. The path of God's bondsmen from origin to return = (Merṣād al-ʻebād men al-mabdāʼ elāʼl-maʻād): a Sufi compendium. Translated by Algar, Hamid. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1982., pp. pp. 12-13)). Despite the monetary gains and favour received from the Sultan, Najm al-Dīn Rāzī did not stay at the Seljuq court in Konya but resided a few years in Erzincan before leaving Anatolia for good in 1225 [1225 CE]. He spent some time in Tabriz, where he met the Jalāl al-Dīn, Shah of Khorezm, -1231 and then moved to Baghdad, where he lived until his death in 1256 [1256 CE].

Title

Risāla-yi ʿIshq va ʿaql

رسالۀ عشق و عقل

Notes

A treatise on the virtues of love and intellect that has some similarities with the Mirsad. It has been suggested that this work could have been a preliminary work to the author’s masterpiece. ( (Rāzī, Najm al-Dīn. The path of God's bondsmen from origin to return = (Merṣād al-ʻebād men al-mabdāʼ elāʼl-maʻād): a Sufi compendium. Translated by Algar, Hamid. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1982., pp. pp. 16)).

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

94-106 ff.

Bibliography

Editions

Okuyan, Mehmet. "NECMEDDÎN-i DÂYE." TDVIA. , [n.d.]: 495-6.

Rāzī, Najm al-Dīn. Risālah-ʼi ʻishq va ʻaql : miʻyār al-ṣidq fī miṣdāq al-ʻishq. Edited by Tafaz̤z̤ulī, Taqī. Tehran: Shirkat-i Intishārātī-i ʻIlmī va Farhangī, vāʹbastah bih Vizārat-i Farhang va Āmūzish-i ʻĀlī, 1367 [1988 or 1989].

Studies

Algar, Hamid. "Nad̲j̲m al-Dīn Rāzī Dāya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. , [n.d.].

Meier, Fritz. "Stambuler Handschriften dreier persischer Mystiker: ‘Ain al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī, Nam ad-Dīn al-Kubrā, Nagm ad-dīn Dāya." Der Islam. 24 1937: 1-42.

Rāzī, Najm al-Dīn. The path of God's bondsmen from origin to return = (Merṣād al-ʻebād men al-mabdāʼ elāʼl-maʻād): a Sufi compendium. Translated by Algar, Hamid. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1982, 1-24.

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Work 8: Matali' al-Iman (Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257)

Author

Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257

نجم الدين أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد رازى

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Dāyah, Najm al-Dīn

Necmüddin Dâye

Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257 (authorised)

ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Dāyah, Najm al-Dīn, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Daye, Necmeddin, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Najm al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Najm al-Dīn Dāyah, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Najm Rāzī, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Necmeddin Daye, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Necmüddin Dâye, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Najm al-Dīn, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد رازى, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين الرازي، عبد الله بن محمد, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين رازى، عبد الله بن محمد, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

نجم الدين رازى، عبدالله بن محمد, -1256 or 1257 (variant)

Biographical notes

Born in 573 AH [1177 CE] in the city of Ray (Iran), Najm al-Dīn Rāzī was a Sufi master belonging to the Kubrawiyya order that became highly influential in Iran, Anatolia and Central Asia from the 14th century [1300-1399 CE] onwards. According to Hamid Algar, he was a Sunni follower of the Ash'arite theology but advocating for the necessity of having a mentor (pīr, shaikh) and the proper regard for the rules and rites of Sufi hospices (khānqah). In 1202 [1202 CE], he left his hometown to travel in Egypt, Syria and Khurāsān (Iran), where he met Najm al-Din Kubrā, d. 1221, who in turn assigned him to one of his disciples Majd al-Dīn Baghdādī, d. 1204. He returned to western Iran a few years later before, apparently forced by the advance of the first Mongol Invasion of Khurāsān (Iran), travelling around 1221 [1221 CE] to Central Anatolia via Hamadān, Irbīl and Diyarbakır, to settled initially in the city of Kayseri. In Seljuq Anatolia he met some of the prominent Sufi scholars of the period. He had encounters with Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar Suhrawardī, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī and Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī. While in Anatolia he sought patronage at the Seljuq court and composed the Mirṣād al-ʻibād, one recension of which he dedicated to Sultan Kayqubad I (see (Rāzī, Najm al-Dīn. The path of God's bondsmen from origin to return = (Merṣād al-ʻebād men al-mabdāʼ elāʼl-maʻād): a Sufi compendium. Translated by Algar, Hamid. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1982., pp. pp. 12-13)). Despite the monetary gains and favour received from the Sultan, Najm al-Dīn Rāzī did not stay at the Seljuq court in Konya but resided a few years in Erzincan before leaving Anatolia for good in 1225 [1225 CE]. He spent some time in Tabriz, where he met the Jalāl al-Dīn, Shah of Khorezm, -1231 and then moved to Baghdad, where he lived until his death in 1256 [1256 CE].

Title

Matali' al-Iman

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

106-115 ff.

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1134

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1944

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1908

Koca Ragıp Paşa Kütüphanesi 671

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3968

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3967

Physical Description

Dimensions of folio

width 14cm, height 20cm

Dimensions of written area

width 11.0cm, height 16.5cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

26

Hand

Copyist:ʽAbdallah b. Muḥammad (عبد الله بن محمد).

History

Date of copy

possibly 17th. century