Numerous stories are related regarding his mystical experiences and his encounters with others, and a number of poems are attributed to him.
He ultimately abandoned scholarly studies and devoted himself to extreme asceticism and mystic exercises. He spent most of his life in this province of Iran, dying there at the age of 82. 1049/440)Ībū Sa‘id ibn Abī al-Khayr was a Persian mystic, born in Khurasan in 967/357. Nothing else is known of this alchemical writer. The commentary circulated in two versions. 1197/593), and he wrote a commentary on his teacher's alchemical-allegorical poems known as Dīwān al-shudhūr ( Poems of the Nuggets) or, more commonly, as Shudhūr al-dhahab ( Nuggets of Gold). He was a pupil of the alchemist Ibn Arfa‘ Ra‘s ( d. 123-4.Ībū al-Qāsim al-‘Irāqī, known as al-SīmāwīĪbū al-Qāsim Mu ḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-An ṣārī (2 nd half of 12 th century) Schacht, ‘Aūu Hanifah al-Nu‘man' in EI (2nd ed.), vol. He is cited as a legal authority in two NLM manuscripts ( MS A 88/IV and MS A 64).įor his biography and sources regarding him, see J. He himself did not compose any writings, but his students recorded his ideas and these records serve as the main source for his legal and theological teachings. See, Wilferd Madelung, The succession to Mu ḥammad: A study of the early Caliphate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).Ībū Hanifah was a leading early authority on theology and religious law, and one of the major schools of jurisproduce, the Hanafi, was named after him. The first of the four Orthodox caliphs, he was the father of the Prophet Mu ḥammad's wife ‘A'ishah and one of his oldest supporters. The National Library of Medicine has a unique copy made in 1733/1146 of a commentary made by Abū al-Baqā’ al-A ḥmadī directly on the poem itself by Ibn Sīnā, and not on the takhmis written by Man ṣūr al-Misrī. Vogelii / London: Richard Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1835-58, vol. Since Ḥajjī Khalifa died in 1657/1067, we can conclude that Abū al-Baqā’ al-A ḥmadī must have worked sometime between the mid-11 th century (when Avicenna died) and the mid-17 th century (see Hajji Khalifah, Kashf al-zunun: Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopædicum, ed. He is recorded by Ḥajjī Khalīfah (Katib Celebi) as the author of a commentary ( shar ḥ) on a takhmis (a special type of amplification of a poem) written by an otherwise unknown scholar named Man ṣūr al-Misrī on a poem by Ibn Sīnā titled al-Qasīdah al-‘aynīyah (‘Poem on the Soul'). Nothing is known of the life of this scholar except that he composed a commentary on a poem of Ibn Sīnā ( Avicenna) and also a commentary on an expansion ( takhmis) of the same poem made by another scholar. A B C D F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T V Y ZĪbū al-Baqā’ al-A ḥmadī al-Shāfi‘ī (between 10)
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