An Unobtrusive but Important Personage: Shams al-din Muhammad al-Iskandari al-Mizzi
Journal Title: Dini Araştırmalar -Altı Aylık Bilimsel Dergi- - Year 2013, Vol 16, Issue 43
Abstract
Shams al-din al-Iskandari, life and works of him has not been deal with in Islamic, especially in today’s Tasawwuf researches yet, is a sufi scholar who tried to be competent of all sciences known in his age and geography, as well religious sciences and wrote encyclopaedical books. His works may be considered among the most important sources transmitting the Arabic literature of Islamic culture prior to XV. age and in that age to our time. He has used some works mentioned only in his studies. This raises the importance of him. It is worthy of note that he referred to sources more than 3.000 in an encyclopaedical work of him. This is why, even his narrative works have the feature of being resource. His works in which he mentions his personal observations, experiences, conversations with the people faced especially sufis, and his narrations from these sufis, sufi and other scholars’ biographies, sufi genealogies in his journeys from Egypt to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and India in Mamluks time, have a special importance from the point of Tasawwuf branch. Most of his works reached the present day are in manuscripts written by himself. This shows that he was an unobtrusive personage in the past as it is in the present day
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Hayri Kaplan
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