The first full-length study devoted tothe life and mystical experiences of one of the outstanding figures in Persian Sufism.
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Rūzbihān establishes ribat in Shiraz in 560/1165 ’
2a. Shihāb al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Rūzbihān (d. 605/1209)
2b. Fakhr al-DTn Ahmad ibn Rūzbihān (ca. 570/1174-645/1247)
3a. Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Rūzbihān (d. 640/1242)
3b. Sadr al-Dīn Ibrahīm ibn Fakhr al- Dīn Ahmad Rūzbihān Tharii (615/1218 or 603/1206-685/1286)
4a. Sharaf al-Dīn Ibrahim ibn Sadr al-Dīn Rūzbihān Tharii, author of Tuhfat ahl al-’irfan (700/1300)
4b. Shams al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Latif ibn Sadr al-Dīn Rūzbihān Tharnī, author of Rūh al-jirix0101.webpn (705/1305)
4c. Jalāl al-Dīn Yahya ibn Sadr al-Dīn Rūzbihān Tharii
5a. Sadr al-Dīn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ibrahim Rūzbihān Thalith
5b. ‘Izz al-Dīn Mas’ud ibn Sharaf al- Dīn Ibrahim
Contemporary Political Figures in Fars1
Salghurid At a begs
Muzaffar al-Dīn Sonqur (r. 543/1148-556/1161)
[Muzaffar al-Dīn Zangi (r. 556/1161-570/1175)]
Sa’id Degele (Takla) ibn Zangi (r. 570/1175-590/1194)
[Toghril (r. 590/1194-601/1203)]
Sa’d ibn Zangi (r. 601/1203-628/1231)
Abū Bakr ibn Sa’d Qutlugh Khan (r. 628/1231-658/1260)
[four other Atabegs]
Jalal al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Khwaja (former caliphal official?)
Direct Mongol Rule after 668/1270
Amir Bulughān (Mongol governor who converts to Islam, ca. 680/1281- 681/1282)
Nusrat al-Dīn Ahmad, ruler of Lur-i Buzurg (r. 696/1296-733/1333)
1. Names in brackets are not mentioned in the hagiographies dedicated to Ruzhiban and his successors
Chart 2
Rūzbihān’s Initiatic Genealogy according to his Descendants
A. According to Tuhfat ahl al-‘irfān, pp. 16–17.
1. Rūzbihān
2. Sirarāj-Dīn Khalifa
3. Abū al-Qāsim Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Karīm
4. Khatib Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad
5. Abū Ishāq Ibrāhim ibn Shahriyār al-Kāzarūnl
6.
usayn Akkar Firūzabadī
B. According to Rūh al-jinān, pp. 184-86.
Path I
1. Rūzbihān
2. Sirāj al-Dīn Mahmūd ibn al-Khallfa
3. Abū al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Karim [KazarunI]
4. Abū Bakr ibn [sic] Muhammad ibn Khatib Abu al-Qasim ibn ‘Abī al-Karīm
5. Abū Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Shahryār al-Kazaruni
6. Husayn al-Akkār
Path II
1. Rūzbihān
C. The Initiatic Genealogy of Sadr al-Dīn Rūzbihān II (Rūh aljinān, pp. 186–87)
I
The Tradition of Rūzbihān Baqlī
A. A Sufi’s Life
The conventional story of the life of Rūzbihān Baqlī has been preserved in a number of biographical reports. Here I would like simply to present a summary, noting in every case the source of our information and indicating where the shaykh’s own writings bear out or conflict with the data of later writers, since these divergences will be explored later on. It will be helpful to the reader to digest this account before going on to the raptures and the inner landscapes of The Unveiling of Secrets, which are analyzed in the Chapter II. The contrasting literary perspectives of the later biographies will be discussed in Chapter III.
Rūzbihān’s life took place in Persia during the period that Marshal Hodgson calls the “earlier middle period” of Islamic history. The ‘Abbāsid caliphate in Baghdad declined precipitously after the middle of the fourth/tenth century. New waves of nomadic confederations were drawn from the steppes of Central Asia to the cultured cities of Iran and Iraq. The Seljuk Turks became Muslims and quickly were drawn to support the Sunni caliphate and to make alliances with religious scholars and Sufis. They established domination over Iran, controlling the area where Rūzbihān would be born as early as 441/1049–50.1 Shiraz, where Rūzbihān is buried, became the capital of the Salghurids, one of several semi-independent dynasties of Atābegs — nominal regents for Seljuk princes who seized effective power for themselves, at first as vassals for the Seljuks, then for the Khwarazmshahs, and finally for the Mongols. The Salghurids remained independent for over 120 years, from 543/1148 to 668/1270, when the Mongols finally took direct control over Fars. Political turmoil and the contest for power made it a turbulent time, though there were also periods of years of tranquillity.
Nearly all our biographers agree that Rūzbihān Baqlī was born in 522/1128 in the Persian town of Pasā (Arabicized as Fasā). The lone ...
Table of contents
Cover
Half Title
Routledge Sufi Series
Full Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Preface
Chart 1
Chart 2
I. The Tradition of Ruzbihan Baqli
II. The Inner Structure of Sainthood
III. Institutionalizing a Sufi Order
IV. Conclusion
Appendix A. The Writings of Ruzbihan Baqli
Appendix B. Ruzbihan's Two Commentaries on the "Ascension" of Abu Yazid al-Bistami
