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A Bisṭāmī-legend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. J. Arberry
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Brockelmann, G.A.L. Erster Supplementband, p. 353, mentions a Kitāb Masā'il al-ruhbān, ascribed to the famous Ṣūfī Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī, of which a copy is preserved in the Āṭafīya Library in Hyderabad. (Two other copies of the same work, one in Hyderabad and one at Istanbul, are recorded ibid. Nachträge, p. 954.) Through the kindness of Dr. Stapleton I have obtained a copy of the Hyderabad manuscript (described in vol. i, p. 388, of the Āṣafīya catalogue), and this transcript is now deposited in the India Office Library, under the serial number 4585.

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Miscellaneous Communications
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 89 - 91
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1938

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References

1 Such a work, in Persian, is mentioned by Ḥājjī Khalīfa, vi, p. 152, no. 13022, cf. Massignon, op. cit., loc. cit. A Maqāmāt i Shaikh Bā Yazīd i Bisṭāmī is referred to by ‘Aufī in his Jawāmi' al-ḥikāyāt, see Niẓámu 'd-Din, Muḥammad, Introduction . . ., pp. 144, 225Google Scholar. It is significant that the anecdote does not occur in any of the early authorities, nor even in 'Aṭṭār.

2 Cf. H. Kh., vi, pp. 151 ff. Brockelmann, op. cit., p. 353 (Dhū 'l-Nūn). A story of the conversion of a group of Christian monks to Islam by the Caliph 'Alī is told in Ahlwardt, op. cit., viii, p. 35, no. 9023.