Tazkirat al-Awliya

Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit. "Biographies of the Saints") – variant transliterations: Tazkirat al-Awliyā`, Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya , Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc., – is a hagiographic collection of thirty-nine Sufi saints and their miracles (Karamat) by the twelfth–thirteenth-century Persian poet and mystic, Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar. ‘Aṭṭar's only surviving prose work comprises 72-chapters, beginning with the life of Jafar Sadiq, the Sixth Shia Imam, and ending with the Sufi Martyr, Mansur Al-Hallaj's.

Translations[]

• Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya‘ (1990); An abridged English translation by A.J. Arberry.^[1]
• Le Memorial des saints (1889); A French translation by Pavet de Courteille.^[2]

List of Biographies[]

See also[]

• Farid ad-Din Attar
• Sufism
• Persian literature

References[]

External links[]

• Download Tadhkirat al-Awliya from scribd (in Persian, about a half of the text from the beginning)

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