Tazkirat_al-Awliya

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Tazkirat al-Awliya

Persian biographical book by Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar

Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit. "Biographies of the Saints") – variant transliterations: Tazkirat al-Awliyā`, Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya , Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc., – is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints and their miracles (Karamat) by the twelfth–thirteenth-century Persian poet and mystic, Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar. ‘Aṭṭar's only surviving prose work comprises 72-chapters, beginning with the life of Jafar Sadiq, the Sixth Shia Imam, and ending with the Sufi Martyr, Mansur Al-Hallaj's.

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.[3]

List of Biographies

See also

References

  1. [1]
    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. ISBN 0-14-019264-6
  2. [2]
    ‘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. ISBN 978-0809145737
  3. [3]
    ‘Aṭṭar, Farīd al-Dīn (1889), "Le Memorial des saints (tr. Tezkereh-i-Evliā)", Collection Orientale, 2d, II, translated by Pavet de Courteille, Pavet, Paris: Imprimerie nationale


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