Tazkirat al-Awliya

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.^[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

• 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

• Persian literature
• Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin

References

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. ‘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. ‘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)