MUSLIM SAINTS & MYSTICS ( TADHKIRATAL-AULIYA) BY SHEIKH FARID-AL-DIN ATTAR INTRODUCTION SHAIKH FARID AL-DIN ATTAR IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE PREEMINENT MYSTICAL POETS OF THE PERSIAN LITERARY TRADITION. THE DURATION OF HIS LIFE IS UNCERTAIN, THOUGH HE CAN BE PLACED IN THE 12TH AND 13TH CENTURIES C.E. BORN IN NISHAPUR IN WHAT IS TODAY IRAN. ATTAR APPARENTLY WAS A PHARMACIST BUT LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE IS KNOWN. DURING HIS LIFETIME HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE WRITTEN APPROXIMATELY 9 BOOKS, INCLUDING SUCH FAMOUS WORKS AS THE MANTEQ AL-TAYR (THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS) AND THE ILAHI-NAMA (THE BOOK OF GOD) TADHKIRATAL-AULIYA (MUSLIM SAINTS AND MYSTICS) IS CONSIDERED WORLD FAMOUS CLASSICAL BOOK OF PERSIAN LITERATURE WHICH PRINTED AND RE-PRINTED IN MANY COUNTRIES. AN ABRIDGEMENT, TRANSLATED BY MR. A.J. ARBERRY, OF ATTAR'S ONLY KNOWN PROSE WORK TADHKIRAT AL-AULIYA (THE MEMORIAL OF THE SAINTS) WHICH HE WORKED ON THROUGHOUT MUCH OF HIS LIFE AND WAS AVAILABLE PUBLICLY BEFORE HIS DEATH. ARBERRY'S TRANSLATION IS AN ABRIDGEMENT. ============================================ THE FOLLOWING EPISODES FROM TADHKIRAT AL-AULIYA (THE MEMORIAL OF THE SAINTS) BY SHAIKH FARID AL-DIN ATTAR. TRANSLATED FROM PERSIAN TO ENGLISH BY MR A.J. ARBERRY. ========================================= Contents Hasan of Basra Malek Ibn Dinar Habib al-Ajami Rabe‘a al-Adawiya Al-Fozail Ibn Iyaz Ebrahim Ibn Adham Beshr Ibn al-Hareth Dho ‘l-Nun al-Mesri Abu Yazid al-Bestami Abd Allah Ibn al-Mobarak Sofyan al-Thauri Shaqiq of Balkh Dawud al-Ta’i Al-Mohasebi Ahmad Ibn Harb Hatem al-Asamm Sahl Ibn Abd Allah al-Tostari Ma‘ruf al-Karkhi Sari al-Saqati Ahmad Ibn Khazruya Yahya Ibn Mo‘adh Shah Ibn Shoja‘ Yusof Ibn al-Hosain Abu Hafs al-Haddad Abo’l-Qasem al-Jonaid Amr Ibn ‘Othman Abu Sa‘id al-Kharraz Abu ‘l-Hosain al-Nuri Abu Othman al-Hiri Ibn Ata Somnun al-Termedhi Khair al-Nassaj Abu Bakr al-Kattani Ibn Khafif Al-Hallaj Ebrahim al-Khauwas Al-Shebli The above episodes are available on the following web site. ================================================ 1. Muslim Saints and Mystics (PDF) www.omphaloskepsis.com/ebooks/pdf/mussm.pdf - 1402k =============================================== I request the readers of the SUNNIPORT to kindly read the above important episodes directly from the above web site for which I shall be highly obliged to all as Mr A.J. ARBERRY worked on throughout much of his life for the translation work of the following great book MUSLIM SAINTS & MYSTICS ( TADHKIRATAL-AULIYA) by SHAIKH FARID AL-DIN ATTAR and the above book was available publicly before his death. ================================= SEARCHED BY Muhammed A. Hafeez, B.COM. H.NO. 16-11-16/1/21, SALEEMNAGAR COLONY, AL-MADINA COTTAGE, Hyderabad-36, (India) EMAIL : hafeezanwar@yahoo. =========================================
