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Work 22: Ghurrat al-fawā’id wa-durrat al-Farā’id (عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن علي بن احمد البسطامي الانطاكي)

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

Ghurrat al-fawā’id wa-durrat al-Farā’id

غرة الفوائد ودرة الفرائد

Notes

No title is given in the text, but this title given in the Suleymaniye catalogue apparently derives from a phrase in the work’s preface: خطر في خطرتي العليلة من فكرتي الكليلة ان احرر غرةً من خفيات الفوائد واقرر درة من جليات الفرائد The work deals with the nature of death.

839 AH [1435-1436 CE] (given in colophon)

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

276b-281b ff.

Bibliography

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.

Work 23: Tuḥfat al-wāhib al-mawāhib fī bayān maqāmāt wa-al-marātib (ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qudsī (d. 856 / 1452))

LOC subject headings

Sufism (Early works to 1800)

Author

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qudsī (d. 856 / 1452)

ﻋﺒﺪ اﻟﻠﻄﻴﻒ ﺍﻟﻘﺪﺳﻲ

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ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad al-Qudsī

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Maqdisī

Ibn Ghanīm

Ibn Banānah

ﻋﺒﺪ ﺍﻟﻠﻄﻴﻒ ﺍﺑﻦ ﻋﺒﺪﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤﺎﻥ ﺍﺒﻦ ﺍﺣﻤﺪ ﺍﻟﻘﺪﺳﻲ

ﻋﺒﺪ ﺍﻟﻠﻄﻴﻒ ﺍﻟﻤﻘﺪﺳﻲ

ﺍﺑﻦ ﻏﻨﻴﻢ

ﺍﺑﻦ ﺑﻨﺎﻧﻪ

Qudsī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1384-1452 (authorised)

Abdüllatîf Kudsî, 1384-1452 (variant)

Kudsî, Abdüllatîf, 1384-1452 (variant)

قدسي،عبد اللطيف (variant)

عبد اللطيف القدسي (variant)

Biographical notes

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qudsī was born in Jerusalem in 786 AH [1384 CE], where he spent most of his life. After studying at the madrasah, al-Qudsī joined Sufism and became a disciple of Zayn al-Dīn Ḥāfī, the founder of the path of Zayniyyah in Khorasan. Upon obtaining his licence, he returned to Jerusalem, after which he spent three years in Asia Minor, in the 830s [1426-1435 CE]. His fame and popularity led Murād II to wish to visit him, which he refused. After returning to Jerusalem, al-Qudsī lived in Cairo for a period, followed by a brief stay in Damascus. His second travel to Asia Minor took place in 851 AH [1448 CE]. al-Qudsī stayed at the lodge of Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī in Konya until 855 AH [1451 CE], when he moved to Bursa, where the Zayniyyah already had a significant following. Al-Qudsī died in Bursa in 856 AH [1452 CE]. His tomb is located in this city in a lodge complex built by one of his disciples after his death. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qudsī is credited with bringing the Zayniyyah path to Asia Minor. His Sufi thought resembles that of his master Zayn al-Dīn Ḥāfī, marked by a reserved language regarding the oneness of being (waḥdat al-wujūd) and a strict importance put on observing the sharīʿah. His disciples include Tāceddīn İbrāhīm Ḳaramānī, Şeyḫ Vefā (Muṣliḥuddīn Muṣṭafā), and ʿAşıḳpaşazāde. Some copies of al-Qudsī’s works copied by Şeyḫ Vefā (d. 896/1491) have survived to our day.

Title

Tuḥfat al-wāhib al-mawāhib fī bayān maqāmāt wa-al-marātib

ﺗﺤﻔﺔ ﺍﻟﻮﺍﻫﺐ ﺍﻟﻤﻮﺍﻫﺐ ﻓﻲ ﺑﻴﺎﻦ ﻣﻘﺎﻣﺎﺕ ﻭ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺗﺐ

Notes

A work on the Sufi journey, stations and concepts, with a focus on union with God. Completed in 833 AH [1430 CE], it is probably one of al-Qudsī’s first works, to which he frequently refers in his other works. The author’s copy is located at the Istanbul University Library.

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

281b-298b ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

Bibliography

Studies

Kara, Mustafa. "Abdüllatîf el-Kudsî." TDVİA. I 1988: 257-258.

Kaymak, Orhan. "Abdullatif el-Makdisînin Hayatı ve Tuhfetü Vâhibi’l-Mevâhib fi Beyâni’l-Makâmât ve’l-Merâtib Adlı Eserinin Tahkiki." Master’s Thesis, Istanbul: Marmara University, 1992.

Tek, Abdurrezzak. Abdüllatîf Kudsî : Hayatı, Eserleri ve Görüşleri. Bursa: Emin Yayınları, 2007.

Öngören, Reşat. "Tarihte Bir Aydın Tarikatı: Zeynîler." Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2003, 76-83.

Work 30: al-‘iqd al-manẓūm (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

al-‘iqd al-manẓūm

العقد المنظوم

Notes

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

347b-354a

Bibliography

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.

Physical Description

Number of folios

373 ff.

History

Date of copy

20th. century