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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

Collection

Reşid Efendi

Shelfmark

no. 395

Contents

Work 1: Rā'ḥat al-Qulūb ( al- Ghūrānī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf b. ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Umar al-Kurdī)

Author

al- Ghūrānī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf b. ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Umar al-Kurdī

الغورانی، ابو المحاسن یوسف بن عبد الله بن عمر الکردی

Title

Rā'ḥat al-Qulūb

رائحة القلوب

Notes

Text composed by an al-Gurāni-Abu al-Mahāsin Yūsuf b. Abdullah b. Omar al-Kurdiالغراني أبو المحاسن, يوسف بن عبدالله بن عمر الكردي

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 1-6

Dimensions of written area

width 8.1cm, height 13cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

Date of copy

14th. century

Work 2: Ṣafīr-i sīmurgh (Suhrawardī‏, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabash Shihāb al-Dīn, 1154-1191‏‏‏‏)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Author

Suhrawardī‏, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabash Shihāb al-Dīn, 1154-1191‏‏‏‏

السهروردي

Title

Ṣafīr-i sīmurgh

صفر سیمرغ

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 8-14

Dimensions of written area

width 8.3cm, height 12.7cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

Date of copy

14th. century

Work 3: al-shajarah al-Ṭayyibah fī mīzān al-ʻaqīdah ( Ghazzālī,‏ 1058-1111 )

LOC subject headings

Islamic philosophy

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

Sufism

Author

Ghazzālī,‏ 1058-1111

الغزالي، أبو حامد

Show other names

Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 (authorised)

Ġazālī, 1058-1111 (variant)

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazzālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghasali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Algazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Algazel, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazālī, 1058-1111 (variant)

Al-Ghazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Houjjatoul-Islam, 1058-1111 (variant)

Toussi, Mohamed Mohamed, 1058-1111 (variant)

Al-Ghazali, Mohamed Mohamed, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ebu Hâmid Muhammed el-Gazâlî, 1058-1111 (variant)

Abu Ḣomid Ghazzoliĭ, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazzoliĭ, Abu Ḣomid, 1058-1111 (variant)

Abū Ḳhamid Muḳhammad al-G̣azālī aṭ-Ṭūsī, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ṭūsī, Abū Ḣamid Muḥammad al-Ghazzālĭ, 1058-1111 (variant)

Al-G̣azālī, 1058-1111 (variant)

Imām Kassāli, 1058-1111 (variant)

Kassāli, Imām, 1058-1111 (variant)

Imam Ghazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazali, Imam, 1058-1111 (variant)

Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Al-Ghazali, Imam Abu Hamid, 1058-1111 (variant)

Imam Al-Ghazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Al-Ghazali, Imam, 1058-1111 (variant)

Imam Gazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Gazali, Imam, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazzoliĭ, Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ, 1058-1111 (variant)

Abu Khamid alʹ-Gazali, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1058-1111 (variant)

Ghazzālī, Abū Ḥāmid, 1058-1111 (variant)

Gazaly, Muhammet, 1058-1111 (variant)

Gazaly, M. (Muhammet), 1058-1111 (variant)

אבוחאמד אלגזאלי, 1111־1058 (variant)

אלגזאלי, 1058־1111 (variant)

גאלדענטהאל, יעקב (variant)

גזאלי, חאמד מחמד (variant)

أبو حامد الغزالي (variant)

أبو حامد محمد الغزالي (variant)

ابو حامد محمد غزالى طوسى (variant)

الغزالي (variant)

الغزالي، أبو حامد،, 1058-1111 (variant)

الغزالي،, ١٠٥٨-١١١١ (variant)

غزالى،, 1058-1111 (variant)

غزالى،, ١١١١-١٠٥٨ (variant)

غزالى،, ١١١-١٠٥٨ (variant)

غزالي (variant)

غزالي،, 1111-1058 (variant)

غوالي (variant)

Ăbu̇-Khămid Mȯkhămmăd ăl-Gazali ăt-Tuci, 1111-1058 (variant)

Title

al-shajarah al-Ṭayyibah fī mīzān al-ʻaqīdah

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 15-76

Dimensions of written area

width 8.1cm, height 13cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

Date of copy

14th. century

Work 4: Lamaʿāt aI-Kudsiyya (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 aI-Kudsiyya

اللمعات القدسية

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 Alī 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. 77-94

Dimensions of written area

width 8.1cm, height 14cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

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.

Physical Description

Dimensions of folio

width 12.5cm, height 17.7cm