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Book Title Sufi Teachings Of Dhul Nun Al Misri
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Sufi Teachings of Dhu’l-Nun al-Misri by Mohammed Rustom

SUFI TEACHINGS OF DHU’L-NUN AL-MISRI

Abu’l-Fayd Thawban b. Ibrahim Dhu’l-Nun al-Misri was born in the upper Egyptian district of Akhmim (the famous Panopolis of late antiquity) in approximately 175/791 He is believed to have died in 245/859 or 248/86 1.

Early sources indicate that Dhu’l-Nun was of Nubian stock, his father being a Nubian freedman of the Quraysh tribe.

Not unlike a number of other key figures of early Sufism, DhuTNun’s teachings have attracted relatively little scholarly attention, especially in English.

This is somewhat surprising, since he is one of the most important figures in the history of Sufism, and is considered to be the first Sufi to have spoken theoretically about gnosis (ma’rifa) and the stations (maqamat) and states (ahwal).

What follows is a thematic presentation of over sixty of Dhu’l-Nun’s sayings, which have been culled and translated from the following 1 Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, Tabaqat al-sufiyya, ed. Nur al-Din Shurayba (Aleppo, 1982), 16. 2 Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri, al-Risalat al-Qushayriyya, ed. Abd al-Karim Ata’ (Damascus, 2000), 57.

Two recent exceptions are Paul Losensky, “Translator’s Introduction,” in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of God’s Friends, trans. Paul Losensky (New York, 2009), 24-32 ( Attar’s (d. ca. 617/1220) account of DhuT-Nun’s life and teachings is to be found on pp. 164-187); Reza Shah-Kazemi,”The Notion and Significance of Ma’rifa in Sufism.’

Islamic Studies 13/2 (2002): 155-181 (this piece discusses several of DhuT-Nun’s statements).

Ibn Arabi’s (d. 638/1240) book on Dhul-Nun is available in French as La vie merveilleuse tie Dhul-Nun I’Egyptien, trans. Roger Deladriere (Paris, 1988).

Amongst writings in non-European languages, the late Javad Nurbakhsh’s Persian book on Dhu’l-Nun is a useful repository of his teachings, extracted from a wide variety of classical Persian and Arabic Sufi texts.

See Nurbakhsh . Dhu ’l-Nun Misri: az mashahir-i danishmandan wa sufiyan-i misr (London, 1999).

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