Pure Pearl and Other Texts by Muhammad Ibn Umail : Ad-Durra an-naqiya / As-Sira an-naqiya / Al-Qasida al-Mimiya / Al-Mabaqil as-saba a
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- Title
- Pure Pearl and Other Texts by Muhammad Ibn Umail : Ad-Durra an-naqiya / As-Sira an-naqiya / Al-Qasida al-Mimiya / Al-Mabaqil as-saba a
- Author
- Madelung, Wilferd (EDT); Abt, Theodor (INT); Faud, Salwa (TRN)
- Publisher
- Daimon Verlag
- Publication year
- 2020
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- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3952446831
- ISBN 13
- 9783952446836
Four texts by Muhammad Ibn Umail at-Tamimi are presented here: The Pure Pearl (ad-Durra an-naqiya), The Pure Conduct of Life (as-Sira an-naqiya), A Poem Rhyming on the Letter M (Mim; al-Qasida al-Mimiya) and The Seven Planting-lots (al-Mabaqil as-saba'a) are all an editio princeps. These texts are published together with an English translation.
The Pure Pearl and The Pure Conduct of Life are based on the same original text, representing however two different traditions or stemmas. For this reason, they are published separately. The next text, A Poem Rhyming on the Letter Mim is an explanation of these aforementioned two texts. By direct references to them, it further explains the theme of The Pure Pearl and The Pure Conduct of Life: the creation of a single pearl out of an egg. From the point of view of depth psychology this means the creation of the unified personality. Thus, these three texts belong together. The Seven Planting-Lots, the fourth treatise by the same author, focuses on the relationship of the seven planets to their corresponding metals on earth, all with regard to the alchemical work.
Repeatedly we read that the first three texts were written at the end of Ibn Umail's life. As A Poem Rhyming on the Letter Mim came after having written The Pure Pearl - respectively The Pure Conduct of Life - this al-Qasida al-Mimiya is therefore most probably the last text of our author, written before he passed away. Thus, we may consider these three texts to be the last words of this outstanding master of the Art. They seem to be Ibn Umail's summa.
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About the Author
Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (born 26 December 1930) is a German-American author and scholar of Islamic history.
Madelung was born in Stuttgart, Germany, where he completed his early education at Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium.
His family moved to the United States in 1947. He studied at Georgetown University.
In 1952, he went to Egypt and stayed there for a year. During his stay, the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, initiated by the Free Officers, occurred. He also met Ihsan Abbas, the famous scholar of Islamic history.
On leaving Egypt he went back to Germany and completed his Ph.D in 1957, working with Berthold Spuler.
In 1958 he was sent to Iraq by the German government to work at its embassy there. Shortly after his arrival in Baghdad, Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew the regime in the bloody military coup known as the 14 July Revolution. Madelung stayed in Iraq two more years.
Subsequently, he taught at the University of Chicago. Madelung was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1978 to 1998.
He has written extensively on the early history of Islam, as well as on Islamic sects such as the Shi'a and the Ismailis. He has also written a lot of academic journals and lectures about Ibadism. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals including the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. He is currently a senior research fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London.
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