A Distant Fire: Ibn al-Shahrazūrī’s Mystical Ode and Arabic Sufi Verse
The al-Mawṣiliyya by al-Murṭaḍā Ibn al-Shahrazūrī (d. 511/1117) is among the earliest Arabic odes on Sufism. Ibn al-Shahrazūrī drew from the Arabic qaṣīda tradition, the Qur’an, and Sufism to compose his elegant poem on the quest for mystical illumination. This article offers a critical Arabic editi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 4, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 27-58 |
Further subjects: | B
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAnama al-Ḍabbī
ʿĀʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya
the Burning Bush
al-Ḥallāj
al-Ḥārith b. Ḥilliza
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Ibn al-Fāriḍ
Ibn Khallikān
Ibn al-Shahrazūrī
Labīd b. Rabīʿa
Laylā
al-Mawṣiliyya
Moses
Mt. Sinai
Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAlawī
al-Nābulusī
Qays b. al-Mulawwaḥ (= al-Majnūn)
Ṣāliḥ
Thamūd
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Summary: | The al-Mawṣiliyya by al-Murṭaḍā Ibn al-Shahrazūrī (d. 511/1117) is among the earliest Arabic odes on Sufism. Ibn al-Shahrazūrī drew from the Arabic qaṣīda tradition, the Qur’an, and Sufism to compose his elegant poem on the quest for mystical illumination. This article offers a critical Arabic edition of the ode along with an English translation. This is followed by a close reading of the poem and the consideration of poetic and religious influences on Ibn al-Shahrazūrī, and the possible influence of his ode on later Sufi verse, including that by Ibn al-Fāriḍ, Ibn al-ʿArabī, ʿĀʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya, and al-Nābulusī. |
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ISSN: | 2210-5956 |
Contains: | In: Journal of Sufi studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341275 |