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Mahmoud Shabestari or Mahmūd Shabestarī ( fa, محمود شبستری; 1288–1340) is one of the most celebrated Persian
Shabistari was born in the town of Shabestar near
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Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or w ...
s of the 14th century.
Life and work
Shabistari was born in the town of Shabestar near Tabriz
Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quru River valley in Iran's historic Azerbaijan region between long ridges of vo ...
in 1288 (687 AH), where he received his education. He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi
Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , ' Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influen ...
. He wrote during a period of Mongol
The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member ...
invasions.
His most famous work is a mystic text called '' The Secret Rose Garden'' (''Gulshan-i Rāz'') written about 1311 in rhyming couplets (Mathnawi). This poem was written in response to fifteen queries concerning Sufi metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...
posed to "the Sufi literati of Tabriz" by Rukh Al Din Amir Husayn Harawi (d. 1318). It was also the main reference used by François Bernier when explaining Sufism to his European friends (in: ''Lettre sur le Quietisme des Indes''; 1688)
Other works include ''The Book of Felicity'' (Sa'adat-nāma) and ''The Truth of Certainty about the Knowledge of the Lord of the Worlds'' (Ḥaqq al-yaqīn fi ma'rifat rabb al-'alamīn. The former is regarded as a relatively unknown poetic masterpiece written in ''khafif'' meter, while the later is his lone work of prose.Lewisohn (1995) p. 24/39
See also
*Sufism
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality ...
*List of famous Sufis
This list article contains names of notable people commonly considered as Sufis or otherwise associated with Sufism.
List of notable Sufis
A
* Abu Baqar Siddique
* Abadir Umar ar-Rida
* Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi
* Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani
* Ala ...
* List of Persian poets and authors
Notes
References
*Leonard Lewisohn, ''Beyond Faith and Infidelity''. Cruzon Press. 1995 *E.G. Browne, ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. *Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 . *François Bernier, ''Lettre sur le Quiétisme des Indes'' in: '' Histoire des Ouvrages des Savans'', Henri Basnage de Beauval (ed.), September 1688. * *External links
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