ALI B. YAHYA AZ-ZANDAWISATI AND HIS WORKS AS SOURCE FOR HISTORY OF EARLY SUFISM
Journal Title: World Science - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 9
Abstract
In this article, the author tried to analyze Risala fi-l-as’ilah al-hikamiyah [Treatise on Gnostic Questions] – a Sufi/Usul ad-din work written by a Tranoxanian Hanafite scholar Ali b. Yahya Zandawisati (d. 1008). Risala has significance for shedding light on early history of Sufism in general, and on its early history in Central Asia particularly. Despite its short volume, the book discussed most questions related to Sufism/Islamic theology in a questions-answer format (fa-in qila …). Zandawisati’s second work - Rawdat al-‛ulama wa-nuzhat al-fudala [Gardens of Scholars and Pleasure for Distinguished Men] is also related to Sufism. In his both works, the author uses the titles for chapters closely akin to ‛Uyun al-majalis of Abu Ja’far al-Ustrushani (d.1014), another Sufi scholar from Central Asia. Zandawisati’s third work Nazm al-fiqh (a Hanafi legal book in poetical form) has not been found so far. According to RU, Zandawisati, for the most part, has issued his fatwas in Farsi. This fact shows that he was close to the ordinary people who never learned or didn’t spoke Arabic in everyday life. The following problems were also discussed in the article: to elucidate similarities between two works (Risala and RU); and to show interconnection between Zandawisati’s books and other early Sufi texts from Central Asia (Abu Muti‛ Makhul an-Nasafi’s al-Lu’lu’iyyat fi-l-mawa’iz, Kalabadhi’s at-Ta‛arruf, Dabusi etc.).
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Zafar Najmiddinov
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