Tazkirat al-Awliya explained
Tazkirat al-Awliyā (fa|تذکرةالاولیا or Persian: تذکرةالاولیاء, lit. "Biographies of the Saints")variant transliterations: Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc. is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints (wali, plural awliya) and their miracles (karamat) authored by the Sunni Muslim Persian poet and mystic Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar of Nishapur who lived from 1145 to 1221.
Aṭṭar's only surviving prose work comprises, beginning with the life of Jafar al-Sadiq and ending with the Sufi martyr, Mansur Al-Hallaj's. Included in the list are four eponymous Sunni madhab founders, namely Sufyan al-Thawri, Abu Hanifah, Al-Shafi'i and Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Translations
- Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya‘ (1990); An abridged English translation by A.J. Arberry.[1]
- Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (2009); Translated and introduced by Paul Losensky.[2]
- Le Memorial des saints (1889); A French translation by Pavet de Courteille.
List of Biographies
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Attar, Farid al-Din. Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya’ ('Memorial of the Saints'). Translated by A.J. Arberry. London, England.: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990.
- ‘Attār, Farid al-Din. Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis. Introduced and Translated by Paul Losensky. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 2009.
