Written work · Essential works
Tadhkirat al-awliya (Memorial of God's Friends)
تذکرة الأولیاء (Tadhkirat al-awliya)
Attar's only prose work and the great Persian collection of saints' lives: some seventy biographies of masters of classical Sufism, from Ja'far al-Sadiq, Uways al-Qarani and Hasan of Basra to al-Hallaj, with their sayings and anecdotes, among them those of Rabi'a al-Adawiyya. Attar relies almost solely on written sources he rarely names and reworks the stories with a taste of his own, but he translates the Arabic sayings faithfully. The account of al-Hallaj's execution is its most famous page. Widely read since the thirteenth century, it also matters as a specimen of early Persian prose.
Authorship note
An attribution hardly open to question although Attar does not list it (being prose). Only the first part, ending with al-Hallaj, is his; the later biographies, including that of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr, are additions.
Editions and translations
Editions in your language first, without hiding the others. Each with its cover and its store.
English
Farid ad-Din ʿAṭṭār's Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis
Paulist Press, 2009
Translation: Paul Losensky
ISBN 9780809105182
Classics of Western Spirituality; rústica 9780809145737.
Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya'
Arkana (Penguin), 1990
Translation: A. J. Arberry
ISBN 0140192646
Selección; 1.ª ed. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.
Persa · فارسی
Attar
The Tadhkiratu 'l-awliya («Memoirs of the saints»), 2 vols.
The Conscious LibraryThe Tadhkiratu 'l-awliya («Memoirs of the saints»), 2 vols.
Luzac / Brill, 1905
Translation: Reynold A. Nicholson (ed.)
Edición crítica con introducción de Qazvini (1905–1907); dominio público.
Attar
Tadhkirat al-awliya
The Conscious LibraryTadhkirat al-awliya
Teherán, 1967
Translation: Mohammad Estelami (ed.)
1346 Š.
Français
Le Mémorial des saints
Éditions du Seuil, 1976
Translation: A. Pavet de Courteille
ISBN 2020044684
Traducida de la versión turca oriental (uigur), publicada en 1889; introducción de Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch.
Español
Attar
72 santos sufíes
The Conscious Library72 santos sufíes
Editorial Hastinapura, 2000
ISBN 9509102482
Por el título, selección del *Tadhkirat*; traductor no indicado en el catálogo.
Other works by Attar
- Mantiq al-tayr (The Conference of the Birds) · 1177
- Ilahi-nama (The Book of God)
- Musibat-nama (The Book of Affliction)
- Asrar-nama (The Book of Secrets)
- Divan
- Mukhtar-nama (The Book of Selections)
- Khusraw-nama (Gol and Hormoz)
- Mi'raj-nama (Book of the Ascension)
- Jumjuma-nama (Book of the Skull)
- Jawahir-nama (Book of Jewels)
- Sharh al-qalb (Commentary on the Heart)
- Kashf al-asrar and Ma'rifat al-nafs
- Pand-nama (Book of Counsel)
- Bulbul-nama (Book of the Nightingale)
- Jawhar al-dhat (The Essence of Essence)
- Ushtur-nama (Book of the Camel)
- Haylaj-nama
- Mansur-nama
- Bisar-nama (Book of the Headless)
- Mazhar al-aja'ib (Manifestation of Wonders)
- Lisan al-ghayb (The Tongue of the Unseen)
- Waslat-nama (Book of Union)
- Khayyat-nama (Book of the Tailor)
- Kanz al-asrar (The Treasure of Secrets)
- Miftah al-futuh (The Key of Openings)
- Wasiyat-nama (Book of the Testament)
- Kanz al-haqa'iq (The Treasure of Truths)
- Other ascribed works (Si fasl, Bayan al-irshad, Nuzhat al-ahbab, Mazhar al-dhat)
Sources
- Reinert, Bernd. «ʿAṭṭār, Farīd-al-Dīn». Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. III, fasc. 1, pp. 20–25. Publicado el 15-12-1987.
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