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Muslim / Sufi
12th Century
Iran/Persia
(Middle East)

 

Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani

Timeline (1098 - 1131)

 

Poems by Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani
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Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani (sometimes transliterated as Ayn-al-Qudat Hamadani) was born in Persia (Iran) in the region of Hamadan. Hamadani was a Sufi philosopher, mystic, and mathematician. He was executed in Baghdad at the age of 33 on the charge of heresy.

 

Poems by Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani

  As Long as I Live
  He Who splashed a thousand worlds with color
  Nonexistence
  Within the eye of the eye

Recommended Books

The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

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Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler

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Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut

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Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years, by Idries Shah

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Related Links:

  Comments on Sufism
http://www.ecsd.com/~mordecai/sufi.htm

Translation of an excerpt from Hamadhani's "Complaint of a Stranger Exiled from Home."
 


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