Awḥad al-Dīn Ḥāmid ibn Abi ʾl-Fakhr Kirmānī[lower-alpha 1] (died 21 March 1238) was a Persian poet and Ṣūfī mystic.

Kirmānī studied under Rukn al-Dīn al-Sijāsī and joined the ṭarāʾiq (orders) of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Abharī and Abū Najīb al-Suhrawardī.[1] He traveled from Kirmān through Azerbaijan, Iraq and Syria and met many leading mystics and philosophers of the day, including Shams al-Dīn Tabrīzī, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, ʿUthmān Rūmī, Saḍr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-ʿIrāqī.[1][2] In Damascus, he met Ibn ʿArabī, who exercised a great influence on his ideas. He ended his life a teacher in Baghdad, where he was rewarded by the caliph al-Mustanṣir in 1234/1235. He probably died on 21 March 1238.[1]

Kirmānī's writings belong to the tradition of shāhidbāzī, seeing divine beauty in earthly things.[1] He was criticized for the homoerotic nature of some of his writings.[3] He is the author of Mathnavi Misbāhu'l-arvāh ("the lantern of souls"), which is an allegorical pilgrimage through imaginary towns, bearing some affinity to Dante's Divine Comedy.

Notes

  1. ↑ Also Awḥad-al-Dīn Kermānī or Shaikh Abu Hamid Auhadeddin Kermani.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 B. M. Weischer (1986). "Kirmānī, Awḥad al-Dīn Ḥāmid b. Abi ʾl-Fakhr". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume V: Khe–Mahi (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 166. ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2.
  2. ↑ Z. Safa (2011 [1987]), "Awḥad-al-Dīn Kermānī" at Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 2, pp. 118–119.
  3. ↑ Lloyd Ridgeon (2012), "The Controversy of Shaykh Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and Handsome, Moon-Faced Youths: A Case Study of Shāhid-Bāzī in Medieval Sufism", Journal of Sufi Studies, 1 (1): 3–30, doi:10.1163/221059512x617658.

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