Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century
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 ( (Kilic_1995, pp. 379)). Although the circulation of his works suggests that
perhaps because of their difficulty, which was noted by Ibn Khaldūn ( (Kilic_1995, 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.
Faraghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century
Farghānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 13th cent
Farghānī, Saʻīd al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad, active 13th century
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Farghānī, active 13th century
فرغاني ، محمد بن أحمد
فرغانى، سعيد الدين بن احمد
Manuscripts by this author
Manāhij al-‘ibād ila l-Ma‘ād
A brief work aimed at murids on the Sufi path, discussing the five pillars of
Islam. It was subsequently incorporated by Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī into his Durrat al-Tāj (درر التاج). Show more
According to the TDVIA a rudimentary edition was publisheded in Istanbul in 1990,
but it has not been possible to trace it
Ateş lists TK_Sul_Aya_4676 as an ms of this work copied in 686. However, this
manuscript is a collection of Kemalpaşazade’s works.
Folio 279v:the manuscript is copied from a shar in the hand of
Mawlānā Shaykh al-Muḥaqqiq al-Mudaqqiq al-Kāsī, this is probably an allusin to Farghani's second nisba, more usually
Kāshānī (كشهاني), from his place of birth,Kāshān.
In this case, the manuscript is copied from an autograph. The colophon is followed by two folios of unidentified Persian mathnawi.
Muntahā al-Madārik wa Muntahā Lubb kull kāmil wa-‘ārif wa-sālik
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 Show more
Composed before 670, when
there is already evidence of it being read in Cairo (Egypt) ()
The conclusion of the work is followed by Arabic verses and an excerpt from
Jāmī's Nafaḥāt al-uns
on the life of Ibn al-Farid
