Al-Busiri
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Busiri al-Sanhaji | |
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 The tomb of al-Busiri in Alexandria, Egypt | |
| Born | 1212 |
| Died | 1294 (aged 81–82) |
| Occupation | Poet, Sufi mystic |
| Language | Arabic |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Genres | Sufi poetry |
| Literary movement | Shadhili |
| Notable works | Al-Burda (Poem of the Mantle), Al-Hamziyya |
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Al-Būṣīrī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري, romanized: Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji[1][2][3] Sufi Sunni Muslim poet belonging to the Shadhili, and a direct disciple of the Sufi saint Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi. His magnum opus, the Qaṣīda al-Burda "Poem of the Mantle" in praise of Prophet Muhammad is one of the most popular Islamic poems of the genre. It is in Arabic, as is his other ode named "Al-Hamziyya".
Biography
[edit | edit source]He was born in Dalāṣ,[4] a small town in Beni Suef Governorate in Egypt (despite the similar name, this town is not to be confused with Dellys, in Algeria), and wrote under the patronage of Ibn Hinna, the vizier. His father was from Abusir, hence his nisba Al-Būṣīrī. Sometimes, he also used his nisbe Dalāṣīrī as his mother belonged to the town of Dalāṣ.[1]
In his al-Burda, he claims that Muhammad cured him of paralysis by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle. The poem has had a unique history (cf. Ignác Goldziher in Revue de l'histoire des religions, vol. xxxi. pp. 304 ff.). It has been frequently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each line of the original. It has been published with English translation by Faizullabhai (Bombay, 1893), with French translation by René Basset (Paris, 1894), with German translation by C. A. Ralfs (Vienna, 1860), and in other languages elsewhere.[5]
See also
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- For a long list of commentaries, etc., cf. C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab. Litteratur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 264–267
- La Burda du désert, T. Ikbal, F. Tidjani, M. Vâlsan, Science sacrée, 2015
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