Awhad al-Din Kermani
Awḥad al-Dīn Ḥāmid ibn Abi ʾl-Fakhr Kirmānī[a] (Persian: اوحدالدین حامد بن ابی الفخر; died 21 March 1238) was a Persian poet and Ṣūfī mystic.
Kirmānī studied under Rukn al-Dīn al-Sijāsī and joined the ṭarāʾiq (orders) of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Abharī and Abū Najīb al-Suhrawardī.[1] He traveled from Kirmān through Azerbaijan, Iraq and Syria and met many leading mystics and philosophers of the day, including Shams al-Dīn Tabrīzī, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, ʿUthmān Rūmī, Saḍr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-ʿIrāqī.[1][2] In Damascus, he met Ibn ʿArabī, who exercised a great influence on his ideas. He ended his life a teacher in Baghdad, where he was rewarded by the caliph al-Mustanṣir in 1234/1235. He probably died on 21 March 1238.[1]
Kirmānī's writings belong to the tradition of Shāhidbāzī, seeing divine beauty in earthly things.[1] He was criticized for the homoerotic nature of some of his writings.[3]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Also Awḥad-al-Dīn Kermānī or Shaikh Abu Hamid Auhadeddin Kermani.
References
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- ^ Z. Safa (2011 [1987]), ""Awḥad-al-Dīn Kermānī"" at Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 2, pp. 118–119.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- E. G. Browne. A Literary History of Persia, Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, 1928. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Lloyd Ridgeon. Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze. Routledge, 2017. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Jan Rypka. History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company, 1968. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K