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 Sunni Imam, and ending with the Sufi Martyr, Mansur Al-Hallaj's.
TranslationsEdit
- Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya‘ (1990); An abridged English translation by A.J. Arberry.[1]
- Le Memorial des saints (1889); A French translation by Pavet de Courteille.[2]
List of BiographiesEdit
- 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
- Abdullah Ibn Mobarak
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Sirri saqti
- 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 alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
- ^ ‘Aṭṭar, Farīd al-Dīn (1889), translated by Pavet de Courteille, Pavet, "Le Memorial des saints (tr. Tezkereh-i-Evliā)", Collection Orientale, 2d, Paris: Imprimerie nationale, II
External linksEdit
- Download Tadhkirat al-Awliya from scribd (in Persian, about a half of the text from the beginning)
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