Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or 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 72 chapters, 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.
- Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (2009); Translated and introduced by Paul Losensky.
- Le Memorial des saints (1889); A French translation by Pavet de Courteille.
List of Biographies
- Jafar Sadiq
- Uwais al-Qarni
- Hasan Basri
- Malik Dinar
- Muhammad Ibn Wasi' Al-Azdi
- Habib Ajami
- Abu Hazim Makki
- Atabah Ibn Qolam
- Rabia al-Adawiyya
- Ibrahim ibn Adham
- Bishr Hafi
- Dhul-Nun al-Misri
- Bayazid Bastami
- Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Sari al-Saqati
- Shaqiq al-Balkhi
- Abu Hanifah
- Al-Shafi'i
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Dawud Tai
- Harith al-Muhasibi
- Abu Soleiman Darayi
- Muhammad Ibn Sammak
- Muhammad Aslam Al-Tusi
- Ahmad ibn Harb
- Hatam Asam
- Sahl al-Tustari
- Maruf Karkhi
- Fath Museli
- Ahmad Hevari
- Ahmad Khezruyah
- Abutorab Nokhshabi
- Yahya ibn Ma'az
- Shah Shoja Kermani
- Yusef Ibn Al-Huseyn
- Abu Hafs Haddad
- Abu Muhammad Jariri
- Mansur Al-Hallaj
See also
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. ISBN 0-14-019264-6
- ‘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
- ‘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
External links
- Download Tadhkirat al-Awliya from scribd (in Persian, about a half of the text from the beginning)
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