Sayyid Husayn Ahlati
Sayyid Husayn Ahlati or Akhlāṭī (died 1397) was a Persianate Kurdish Muslim occultist, lettrist[1] and personal physician-alchemist to Sultan Barquq who played a pivotal role in the intellectual network which developed a renaissance of occultism in Islam in the late 14th century. Ahlati is also accredited as the author of the geomantic manual Risāla-yi Surḫāb.[2]
Life[edit]
Ahlati was a occulist from Ahlat[3] or Tabriz who moved to Mamluk Cairo because of the growing Occultist studies there. Becoming an important figure in the growing studies, he became a worry for anti-occulists like Ibn Khaldun and Ibn al-Qayyim who sharpened their criticism on Ahlati but failed to convince Barquq.[4][5]
Disciples and students of Ahlati include ibn Turk, Ḥasan Abarqūhī, al-Ḥāǧǧ Ḥasan, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Shams al-Din al-Fanari and Šayḫ Badr al-Dīn al-Simāwī.[2][6][7] He moreover influenced Jalal al-Din Davani and Mir Damad.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Coulon, Jean-Charles (2014). "Les sciences occultes dans les cultures islamiques, VIIe/XIIIe-XIe/XVIIe siècles (table-ronde internationale)". Hypotheses (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (2017). "In Defense of Geomancy: Šaraf Al-Dīn Yazdī Rebuts Ibn Ḫaldūn's Critique of the Occult Sciences". Arabica. 64 (3/4): 363. doi:10.1163/15700585-12341457. JSTOR 26569037 – via JSTOR.
- ^ al-Asqalani (1449). Inbāʾ al-ġumr bi-abnāʾ al-ʿumr (in Arabic). Cairo. p. 531. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (2017). Intellectual History of the Islamicate World: Powers of One: The Mathematicalization of the Occult Sciences in the High Persianate Tradition. Vol. 5. p. 132. doi:10.1163/2212943X-00501006.
- ^ Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (2017). "In Defense of Geomancy: Šaraf Al-Dīn Yazdī Rebuts Ibn Ḫaldūn's Critique of the Occult Sciences". Arabica. 64 (3/4): 385. doi:10.1163/15700585-12341457. JSTOR 26569037 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (2017). Intellectual History of the Islamicate World: Powers of One: The Mathematicalization of the Occult Sciences in the High Persianate Tradition. Vol. 5. p. 136. doi:10.1163/2212943X-00501006.
- ^ Noah, Gardiner (2012). "Forbidden Knowledge? Notes on the Production, Transmission, and Reception of the Major Works of Aḥmad al-Būnī" (PDF). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies: 118.