The qebla of Jāmi is None Other than Tabriz”

ʿAbd al-Rahmān Jāmi and Naqshbandi Sufism at the Aq Qoyunlu Royal Court

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12957477
AutoresChad G Lingwood (Grand Valley State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas233-245
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Persianate Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1874-7094 • E-ISSN: 1874-7167
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/187471611x600404
OpenAlexW2006717201
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas6

This article addresses the possibility that members of the Naqshbandi Sufi order exerted a greater influence at the royal court of Yaʿqub b. Uzun Hasan, leader of the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty, than previously acknowledged. In order to substantiate this claim, the article cites contemporary and near-contemporary Persian sources, notably the Tārikh-eʿālam-ārā-ye amini , the Rowzāt al-jenān va jannāt al-janān , and the Rashahāt-e ʿayn al-hayāt , each of which attests to the presence of Naqshbandis in the Aq Qoyunlu capital of Tabriz, and notes that the Naqshbandis most closely associated with Yaʿqub shared the distinction of being protégés of the classical Persian poet ʿAbd al-Rahmān Jāmi. In a related vein, the article suggests that it was Jāmi himself, in Salāmān o Absāl , and in a personal letter sent to Yaʿqub from his residence in Timurid Herat, who may have exerted the most significant Naqshbandi influence over the Aq Qoyunlu. The article therefore concludes that the existing historiography, which emphasizes the involvement of the Khalvati order in Aq Qoyunlu affairs, should be revised in order to recognize the probable influence of members of the Naqshbandi order, particularly Jāmi, at the Aq Qoyunlu court

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