Tazkirat al-Awliyā (
Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit. "Biographies of the Saints") – variant transliterations: Tazkirat al-Awliyā`, Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya , Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc., – is a
hagiographiccollection of ninety-six
Sufi saints and their miracles (
Karamat) by the twelfth–thirteenth-century
Persianpoet and
mystic,
Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar. ‘Aṭṭar's only surviving
prose work comprises 72-chapters, beginning with the life of
Jafar Sadiq, the Sixth
ShiaImam, and ending with the Sufi
Martyr,
Mansur Al-Hallaj's.
Translations
Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya‘ (1990); An abridged English translation by
A.J. Arberry.[1]
Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (2009); Translated and introduced by Paul Losensky.[2]
^Attar, Farid al-Din. Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya’ ('Memorial of the Saints'). Translated by A.J. Arberry. London, England.: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990.
ISBN0-14-019264-6
^‘Attār, Farid al-Din. Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis. Introduced and Translated by Paul Losensky. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 2009.
ISBN978-0809145737
^‘Aṭṭar, Farīd al-Dīn (1889), "Le Memorial des saints (tr. Tezkereh-i-Evliā)", Collection Orientale, 2d, II, translated by
Pavet de Courteille, Pavet, Paris: Imprimerie nationale