Interpreting the term nafs: a component of the Sufi doctrine

Чалисова, Н. Ю.

doi:10.31696/2618-7043-2019-2-2-421-434

Orientalistica

2019

DOI: 10.31696/2618-7043-2019-2-2-421-434

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Interpreting the term nafs: a component of the Sufi doctrine

Н. Ю. Чалисова

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The Hymn of P’īr Dāwid (Qawlē P’īr Dāwid)

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2020

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The article publishes and analyzes a Yezidi sacred hymn The Hymn of Pīr Dāwid (Qawlē Pīr Dāwid) in Kurmanji with a translation into Russian, which was carried out for the first time. Pīr Dāwid is one of the companions of the main Yezidi saint Sheikh ˈAdī. The authors verify their version of the hymn (Qawl) with previously published in Kurmanji and English, correct existing errors and clarify the terminology. They also point out the historical data found in this religious hymn.

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The Hymn of P’īr Dāwid (Qawlē P’īr Dāwid)

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2020

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‘Warrior fighting two wars’: Life of ‘Abdallah ibn al-Mubarak in the ‘Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends

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2020

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The publication presents the first translation into Russian of the 15th chapter from the hagiographic collection by Farid ad-Din ʻAttar (d. ca. 1221 AD) Memorial of God’s friends (Taẕkiratu’l-awliyā) originally written in Persian. The chapter deals with biography, exploits and sayings of ʻAbdallah b. al-Mubarak of Khorasan, a recognized collector and transmitter of hadith, a renown ascetic, successful merchant, and severe warrior, but first of all a devoted and true worshiper (ʻābid) of God. The translation has been completed from the critical edition by Muhammad Esteʻlami. It is introduced by short preface, which provides basic information on Ibn Mubarak’s life and his place in the tradition of Muslim piety. The translation is supplied with historical and linguistic commentary. The tranlator stresses the fact that although being constructed on Arabic sources the actual narrative created by ʻAttar fits into the framework of Iranian hagiography. In describing the life and deeds of ʻAbdallah b. al-Mubarak of Khorasan ʻAttar created an Iranian version of the “Sufi prototype”. He emphasized features, such as humility, self-abasement, miracle-working, and participation in miraculous events.

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Discourse of the father with his son about the water of life in the masnavi “Ilahi-Nameh” by (Farid ad-Din)

Лахути

2020

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This is the line-by-line commented translation into Russian of the chapter (maqaleh) 14 from the masnavi “Ilāhī-nāme” by Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (Farīd ad- Dīn, ʿAṭṭār), the Persian Sufi poet (1145–1220 AD). The chapters in the Ilahi-name are in fact answers given by the King to his six sons. Chapter 14 deals with the water of life, which, according to the legend, Alexander the Great once unsuccessfully tried to find. The answer to the King’s son includes 24 stories about historical and legendary characters, such as Iskandar (Alexander the Great), Namrud (the Biblical Nimrod), the righteous caliph ‘Umar, Majnun (in love with Layli), Sultan Mahmud and his beloved slave Ayaz, as well as nameless ones, including a collector of the poll tax from the Jews, a beautiful youth and an old man in love with him, a fox caught in a trap, a rogue salesman and a thief at the foot of the gallows. These stories are used to discuss and illustrate the key issues of Sufism. Among them: the desires of the nafs (“lower self” or “animal soul”), material and spiritual immortality, independence of divine actions from material causes, love, which requires the renunciation of one’s “self”, and knowledge as the true water of life. The stories are not related to each other, however, the set of Sufi ideas illustrated forms a conceptual unity.

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Interpreting the term nafs: a component of the Sufi doctrine

Cited by 4 publications

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The Hymn of P’īr Dāwid (Qawlē P’īr Dāwid)

The Hymn of P’īr Dāwid (Qawlē P’īr Dāwid)

‘Warrior fighting two wars’: Life of ‘Abdallah ibn al-Mubarak in the ‘Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends

Discourse of the father with his son about the water of life in the masnavi “Ilahi-Nameh” by (Farid ad-Din)

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