Sa'id al-Din Farghani | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1231 Kashan, Farghana Valley, Chagatai Khanate |
| Died | 1300 Damascus, Syria, Mamluk Sultanate |
| Notable works | Mashariq al-Darari Muntaha al-Madarik Manahij al-Ibad |
Sa'id al-Din Farghani (Persian: سعیدالدین فرقانی; 1231 – 1300) was a Persian[1] Sufi mystic and scholar, who is known to have composed three works.[2]
Farghani was born in 1231 in Kashan, a town located in the Farghana Valley.[2][3] Although the valley was nominally part of the Mongol Chagatai Khanate, it was governed by a representative of the Mongol Empire from 1227 to 1238.[4]
Farghani became acquainted with Sufism through Najib al-Din Buzghush (died 1279), a member of the Suhrawardiyya and a student of Shibab al-Din Suhrawardi (died 1191).[2][5] Farghani later moved to the city of Konya in Anatolia, where he studied under Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi (died 1274), the most prominent disciple of the Andalusian scholar and mystic Ibn Arabi (died 1240). During this period, Konya reportedly served as a gathering place for students who wanted to increase their knowledge in Sufism. Through Qunawi, Farghani became acquainted with Ibn Arabi's ʿulum al-haqiqa ("Mystical theosophy").[2]
In 1247, Qunawi took his students (including Farghani) to Egypt, where he taught them the poem Nazm al-suluk ("Poem of the Sufi way"), also known as al-Taʾiyya al-kubra ("The greater ode with rhyming verse based upon the letter taʾ"), by the Egyptian Sufi poet Ibn al-Farid (died 1234).[2]
Farghani died in August 1300 in the city of Damascus.[2][5]
- ^ Peacock 2019, p. 45.
- ^ a b c d e f Hussain 2016.
- ^ Sheikhsofla 2018.
- ^ Bosworth 1999.
- ^ a b Chittick 1999.