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Three Treatises on Mysticism. By Shihābuddīn Suhrawardī Maqtūl. With an account of his Life and Poetry. Edited and translated by Otto Spies and S. P. Khatak. Bonner Orientalistische Studien, Heft 12. 91⁄2 × 6, pp. 52 + 121. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1935. by Nicholson, R. A. is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Three Treatises on Mysticism. By Shihābuddīn Suhrawardī Maqtūl. With an account of his Life and Poetry. Edited and translated by Otto Spies and S. P. Khatak. Bonner Orientalistische Studien, Heft 12. 91⁄2 × 6, pp. 52 + 121. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1935. about?

The famous Persian philosopher and mystic, who was convicted of heresy and executed at Aleppo in A.H. 587, composed most of his works, including the Hihmatu 'l-ishrdq and the Hayakilu 'l-nur, in the classical language of Moslem philosophy; but among his opera minora are several allegories written in his native tongue, which appear to be the earliest Persian prose examples of their kind, though Avicenna and others, as is well known, had already cultivated the same style in Arabic. There are now five tractates by Suhrawardi available to those interested in the method of imparting mystical knowledge by means of a " myth ". One, entitled Mu'nisu 'l-'ushshdq (" The Lovers' Friend"), was edited recently by Professor Spies; another, Awdz-i par-i Jibrd'il (" The Sound of Gabriel's Wing "), has been published together with a Persian commentary in the Journal Asiatique (July-September, 1935); and the work under review contains three more: Lughat-i murdn (" Ant-language"), Safir-i Simurgh (" the Note of the Simurgh"), and Tarjama-i Lisdni 'l-Haqq, a Persian translation, or paraphrase, of Avicenna's Risdlatu 'l-tayr, to which is appended the commentary of 'Umar ibn Sahlan al-Sawaji (circa A.H.

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Author

Nicholson, R. A.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 1356-1863)

Published

1937

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences