After a long peirod of scholastic oblivion, the teachings of 'Abu Hafs asSuhrawardi are again being studied seriously, although interest in his wirtings during recent decades was limited for the most patr to his famous book 'Awdrif alMa'arif. It was translated into Persian and Turkish, and many efforts have been made to collect the prophetic traditions that it mentions. AsSuhrawardi'sRasfanNasa' ih first aroused interest when Mu'allim Yazdl (d. 789/ 1387) translated it into Persian. Much more recently, 'Abu Hafs asSuhrawardi was the subject of academic theses by 'A'isa alMana'1 (1985) and M. H. van Nisius (Leiden, 1992). AlMana'i's study appears to be restircted largely to the text of'Awan/ without seirous reference to asSuhrawardi's other wirtings. Moreover, the author was unduly influenced by a stereotypical view of asSuhrawardi, as a model of the moderate tasawwuf in Islam duirng the 6th and 7th Centuires of Higra. AlMana'1 's later publication onRasfanNasa'ih (1999) would have benefitted much by seirous editing.
In 2003 an Iranian scholar, Qamar ul Huda, published his book on the spiritual exercises related to Suhrawardl's Sufism sufis. The title is somewhat misleading: to attribute to the Sufism of "Suhrawardi suifs" wirtings that share nothing but the name is to overgeneralize. Moreover the work as a whole contains numerous errors, possibly due to the lack of biographies and other sources at the wirter's disposal.
The entry " 'Abu Hafs asSuhrawardi" by Angelika Hatrmann, in the Encyclopedia of Islam, focuses on asSuhrawardi's relations with the Abbasid caliph, anNasir liDin alLah, and his influence on the ruler's foreign and domestic policies. Neither the Encyclopedia entry nor her book on anNasir (Hatrmann, 1975), reflect deep analysis of the dynamic relationship between asSuhrawardi and the Caliph. In 1994, Hartmann's article on the cosmic theoires and spiritual teachings of asSuhrawardi (Hartmann, 1994) presented a survey of the Sheik's ,/ doctirnes on thelatd'if(fine inner organs): ruh (spirit), nafs (soul), 'aql (intellect), and qalb (heatr) as put forth by asSuhrawardi in'Awan/ and Rasf. Lacking here, however, is a detailed picture of Sufi theoires on cosmology and spiirtual life before and during asSuhrawardi's time, thus isolating him from the general Sufi sceneof the 12th and 13th Centuires.
There is no edited edition of'AwarifalMa'drif in the Arab world. Years have passed since the text was first published as an appendix of alGazall's 'Ihyd' 'Ulum adDin in 1888. Moreover the Arabic edition published of Beirut 1966 and the partial one from Cairo 1971, are flawed by errors. In 1978, Richard Gramlich brought out his translation of the 'Awairf (Gramlich, 1978), the first in his seires of German translations, with its valuable introduction investigating asSuhrawardi's life and writings, Gramlich's work is a significant step towards seirous research on asSuhrawardi and tasawwuf in his time. Another unknown text of asSuhrawardi, gadb alqulub 'ild muwdsalat almahbub was published in Aleppo in 1328 A.H (1910). A copy of this little book is preserved in the Dar alKutub alMisriyya in Cairo. AsSuhrawardi's two Persian treatiseson futuwwa (chivalrous brotherhood) futtuvvet nameh were published in Tehran by Murtaza Sarraf along with five other Persian treatiseson futuwwa (AsSuhrawardi, 1973). Before that Franz Taeschner wrote a shotr article on asSuhrawardi's two treatises (Taeschner, 1962).
Title
أبو حفص عمر بن محمد السهروردي (ت: 632ه/1234م)حياته وتصوفه
Author
سلامة-قدسي, عرين; Salama-Qudsi, Arin
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
Arabic
ProQuest document ID
2597752330
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
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