Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biyabanak, `Ala al-Dawlah Simnānī (d. 787/1385).

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 `Alā al-Dawlah Simnānī (XXXX - d. 787 = c. 1260[1]-1336)

A Kubrāwî Sufi, `Alā al-Dawlah Simnānī (d. 1336) spent his youth at the Ilkhanid court, a poet and mystical philosopher who modified Ibn `Arabi's concept of waḥdat al-wujūd. A  favorite saint of the later Naqshbandiyya.

 

• Tafsīr Najm al-Qur'ān. mss.
• al-`Urwah li-ahl al-khalwah wa-al-jalwah. ed. Najīb Māyil Haravī,  Tehran : Intisharat-i Mawlā,  1st ed. 1404 AH =1362/1983. (644pp.)
• Divan-i kamil-i Ash`ar-i Farsi va `Arabi ,Tihran : Shirkat-i Muallifan va Mutarjiman-i Iran,1985. This Persian Book includes an
  introduction on the life of the poet by Zabih Allah Safa, xix, [10], 515 pp.
• Manāzir al-mahādir, ed. H. Haydarkhanî, Tehran, 13718/ 1992
• Tadhkirat al-mashāyikh, Tehran, 1971 in M. T. Dānishpazhūh and H. Landolt [eds.], Majmū'a-yi sukhanrānīhā wa maqālahā dar bāra-yi falsafa wa 'irfān-i Islāmī,  pp. 152—60.
• Muṣannafat-i Fārsī ed. Najib Mayil Haravi. Tehran:  Intisharat-i `Ilmi va Farhangi/ Kitab-khanah-i Milli-yi Iran, 1382/2003 (469pp.).*
  
   
  Hermann Landolt.
• "Simnānī on Wahdat al-Wujud," in Collected Papers on Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, ed. Mehdi Mohaghegh and Hermann Landolt (Tehran, 1971).
• Landolt, ed. and trans., Correspondence spirituelle, échangé entre Nouroddin Esţarayeni (ob, 717/1317) et son disciple '-Alaoddawleh Sem-nani (ob. 736/1336) (Tehran and Paris, 1972)

   Marijan Mole,

• "Un traité de ^la^ud-dawla Simnānī sur `Ali  ibn Abī Tālib," Bulletin de l'Institut Français de Damas 16 (1958-60).

  Elias, Jamal J.

• The Throne Carrier of God, The Life and Thought of `Ala ad-Dawla as-Simnani. New York, Albany : SUNY Press, 1995.

   

 

 al-Simnānī  : Aḥmad ibn Muhammad ibn Aḥmad Biyānbānkī =  `Alā' al-Dawlah al-Simnānī (d. 787/1336)

A Kubrãwî, `Ala`al-Dawla Simnānī (d.1336) spent his youth at the Ilkhanid court, a poet and mystical philosopher who modified Ibn `Arabi's concept of wahdat al՛ u՝ujud. A  favorite saint of the later Naqshbandiyya.

• Tafsir Najm al-Qur'an. mss. see Elias 1995 index.
• al-`Urwah li-ahl al-khalwah wa-al-jalwah. ed. Najīb Māyil Haravī,  Tehran : Intisharat-i Mawlā,  1st ed. 1404 AH =1362/1983. (644pp.)
• Divan-i kamil-i Ash`ar-i Farsi va `Arabi ,Tihran : Shirkat-i Muallifan va Mutarjiman-i Iran,1985. This Persian Book includes an
  introduction on the life of the poet by Zabih Allah Safa, xix, [10], 515 pp.
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Marijan Mole,

• "Un traité de ^la^ud-dawla Simnānī sur `Ali  ibn Abī Tālib," Bulletin de l'Institut Français de Damas 16 (1958-60).

  Landolt. Hermann

• "Simnānī on Wahdat al-Wujud," in Collected Papers on Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, ed. Mehdi Mohaghegh and Hermann Landolt (Tehran, 1971).
• Landolt, ed. and trans., Correspondence spirituelle, échangé entre Nouroddin Esţarayeni (ob, 717/1317) et son disciple '-Alaoddawleh Sem-nani (ob. 736/1336) (Tehran and Paris, 1972)

Nwyia, Paul.

• "Muqaddimat tafsīr al-Qur’ān li-`Alā’ al-Dawla Simnānī," al-Abḥāṭ, vol. 26 (1973-77), 141-57.

Elias, Jamal J.

• Ṣūfī Thought and Practice in the Teachings of `Alā’ ad-dawla as-Simnānī, Ph.D. dissertation, Yale, 1991.
• The Throne Carrier of God, The Life and Thought of `Ala ad-Dawla as-Simnani. New York, Albany : SUNY Press, 1995.