al-Nuzha al-SÄsÄniyya by ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ« (d. 810/1408)
A Recently-Discovered Cosmological Treatise in Persian of the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī
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This article presents for the first time the treatise al-Nuzha al-SÄsÄniyya by the Tabrizi Sufi scholar and poet Muḥammad ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ« (d. 810/1408), hitherto considered lost. The analysis of this Persian cosmology work, the rich graphic materials it contains, and its relationship with some of Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«âs (d. 638/1240) most important cosmological texts including the treatise Ê¿Uqlat al-mustawfiz and Chapter 371 of al-FutūḥÄt al-Makkiyya, offers a unique opportunity for shedding new light on MaghribÄ« as an eminent member of the so-called âSchool of Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«â and on his intellectual activity as a teacher and interpreter of the works and ideas of the Shaykh al-Akbar. At the same time, it explores the use of visual elements, and more specifically of diagrams, in the Sufi literature of the period, and their potential value for codicological and philological purposes.
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al-Nuzha al-SÄsÄniyya by ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ« (d. 810/1408)
A Recently-Discovered Cosmological Treatise in Persian of the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī
In: OriensSearch for other papers by Giovanni Maria Martini in
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Abstract
This article presents for the first time the treatise al-Nuzha al-SÄsÄniyya by the Tabrizi Sufi scholar and poet Muḥammad ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ« (d. 810/1408), hitherto considered lost. The analysis of this Persian cosmology work, the rich graphic materials it contains, and its relationship with some of Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«âs (d. 638/1240) most important cosmological texts including the treatise Ê¿Uqlat al-mustawfiz and Chapter 371 of al-FutūḥÄt al-Makkiyya, offers a unique opportunity for shedding new light on MaghribÄ« as an eminent member of the so-called âSchool of Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«â and on his intellectual activity as a teacher and interpreter of the works and ideas of the Shaykh al-Akbar. At the same time, it explores the use of visual elements, and more specifically of diagrams, in the Sufi literature of the period, and their potential value for codicological and philological purposes.
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