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Sayyid Ḥaydar al-Āmulī (b. Āmul 719/ 1319–d. Najaf, –787/1385).

Tomb of Sayyid Ḥaydar al-Āmulī

Sayyid Ḥaydar al-Āmulī (b. Āmul, Mazandaran, 719/ 1319–d. Najaf, –787/1385).

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ḥaydar ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥaydar al-ʿUbaydī

Stephen Lambden UC Merced,

Last updated 14-10-2020.

This learned twelver Shī`ī scholar and mystic was much influenced by Ibn al`Arabī upon whose seminal Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (The Bezels of Wisdom) he wrote a commentary entitled Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ (The Text of Texts).

World Cat. Identities

Sayyid Haydar-i Amuli (b. Amul, 1319- d. Najaf, 1385).

Shi`i philosopher and mystic... exponent of Ibn al-`Arabi...

See Brockelmann, GAL II:213; Supp. II:209.

Āmulī, Sayyid Ḥaydar ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Āmulī (d. Najaf, 1385).

Tafsir al-Muḥīṭ al-aʿẓam

  • Tafsir al-Muḥīṭ al-aʿẓam wa'l-bahr al-makhdam ... (The Mighty Supreme 

  • Tafsīr al-muḥīṭ al-a`ẓam wa'l-baḥr al-khidamm fi ta`wīl kitāb Allāh al-`azīz al-muḥkam. 2 vols. 2nd ed. printing. Tehran: Mu`assasat al-Tiba`ah wa'l-Nashr Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa'l-Irshad al-Islami, 1995.

  • Tafsīr al-muḥīṭ al-a`ẓam wa'l-baḥr al-khidamm fi ta`wīl kitāb Allāh al-`azīz al-muḥkam. 2 vols. 2nd ed./printing. Tehran: Mu`assasat al-Tiba`ah wa'l-Nashr Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa'l-Irshad al-Islami, 1995.

  • انوار الحقيقة و اطوار الطريقة و اسرار الشريعة = Anwar al-Haqiqah wa Atwar al-Tariqah wa Asrar al-Shariah. Qum: Nur `ala Nur, 2004.

  • انوار الحقيقة و اطوار الطريقة و اسرار الشريعة = Anwar al-Haqiqah wa Atwar al-Tariqah wa Asrar al-Shariah. Qum: Nur `ala Nur, 2004.

  •  تفسير المحيط الاعظم و البحر الخضم في تاويل كتاب الله العزيز المحكم   Tafsir al-Muhit al-`A`zam va al-Bahr fi Ta`vil Kitab Allah al-`Aziz al-Muhkam / 7 vols.

  • Tafsīr al-Muhit al-a`zam wa al-bahr al-Khiḍrim fi Ta`wil Kitab Allāh al-`Aziz al-Muhkam. 7 vols. Qum: Nur `ala Nur 2007 . 2974pp. ISBN: 9789648016031

  • Tafsir al-Muhit al-a`zam wa al-bahr al-Khiḍrim fi Ta`wil Kitab Allāh al-`Aziz al-Muhkam. 7 vols. Qum: Nur `ala Nur 2007 . 2974pp. ISBN: 9789648016031

Jāmiʿ al-asrār wa manbaʿ al-anwār (The Compendium of Mysteries and the Source of Lights).

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    Jāmiʻ al-asrār wa-manbaʻ al-anwār lil-maʻārif al-mutaʼllih al-walī.

  • Majma' al-asrar wa Manba' al-anwar (Compendium of Secrets and the Source of the Lights).

Asrār al-sharīʻah va atvar al-tarīqah wa anwār al-ḥaqīqa.

  • ‏اسرار الشريعة واطوار الطريقة وانوارالحقيقة ‏  = Asrār al-sharīʻah wa-aṭwār al-ṭarīqah wa-anwār al-ḥaqīqah

  • Asrār al-šarīʿa wa aṭwār al-ṭarīqa wa anwār al-ḥaqīqa, ‏آملي، حدير. ‏للسيد حدير الآملي ؛ تقديم وتنقيح رضا محمد حدرج. ‏حدرج، رضا محمد. ; Ḥaydar ibn ʻAlī Āmulī; ed. Introd. Riḍā Muḥammad Ḥadraj.  Beirut : Dār al-Hādī, 2003

Kitāb Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam li-Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī

المقدمات من كتاب نص النصوص : فى شرح فصوص الحكم 

  •  المقدمات من كتاب نص النصوص في شرح فصوص الحكم  al-Muqaddimāt min Kitāb Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam  by آملي, حيدر بن على. Ḥaydar ibn ʻAlī Āmulī; Henry Corbin; ʻUthmān Yaḥyá. Tehran: : Qismat-i Īrānshināsī, Instītū Īrān va Firānsah-i Pizhūhishʹhā-yi ʻIlmī, 1352- 1974-5.

  • Le Texte Des Textes Nass Al-Nosus Commentaire des Fosus Al-Hikam D`Ibn Arabi, Les Prolegomenes (In French Language) (المقدمات من کتاب نص النصوص فی شرح فصوص الحکم لمحبی الدین ابن العربی) (French) by Sayyed Haydar Amoli (Author), Osman Yahia Henry Corbin (Editor)/ Ḥaydar ibn ʻAlī Āmulī; Henry Corbin; ʻUthmān Yaḥyá  (Series: Bibliotheque iranienne, 22 ). Téhéran : Département d'Iranologie de l'Institut franco-iranien de recherche ; Paris : Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1975. + 1988 + Beirut: Muʼassasat al-Tārīkh al-ʻArabī, 2005.

  • Al-Muqaddamāt min Kitāb naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ : fī sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam li-Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī  ... 2 vols. 1975.

  • al-Muqaddamāt min kitāb Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam li-Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī, az taṣnīfāt-i Ḥaydar Āmulī ; bā taṣḥīḥāt va dū muqaddamah va fihristhā Hinrī Kurbīn va ʻUthmān Ismāʻīl Yaḥyá. Tehrān : Intishr̄āt-i Tūs, 1988.

  • al-Muqaddamāt min kitāb Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam li-Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī, Tehrān : Intishr̄āt-i Tūs, 1988. Yaḥyá, ʻUthmān. , Corbin, Henry.

al-Masāʾil al-āmulīya / al-ḥaydariyya.

  • al-Masāʾil al-āmuliyya (or al-ḥaydarīya)

Risālat al-wuǰūd fī maʿrifat al-maʿbūd

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Risalah-'i naqd al-nuqud fi màrifat al-wujud.

  • Risalah-'i naqd al-nuqud fi màrifat al-wujud. 1364

al-Kashkūl fīmā jará ʻalá āl al-Rasūl

  • al-Kashkūl fīmā jará ʻalá āl al-Rasūl. Najaf : Manshūrāt al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ḥaydarīyah, 1953,

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Risālat al- ʿulūm al-ʿāliyya

  • Risālat al- ʿulūm al-ʿāliyya

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van Ess, J.

  • "Ḥaydar-i Āmulī, Bahāʾal-Dīn Ḥaydarb.ʿAlī b.Ḥaydaral-ʿUbaydī (719/1319 or 720/1320—after 787/1385)." in EI2 . Brill, 2011. 

Corbin, Henry.

  • Temple and Contemplation. Trans. Philip Sherrard. London: Kegan Paul International in Association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1986

Landolt, Hermann

  • "Ḥaydar-i Āmulī et les deux mi'rājs" in Studia Islamica No. 91 (2000), pp. 91-106.

Surahman, Cucu and Aceng Kosasih, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung

  • "The Integration of Sharī‘Ah, Ṭarīqah, and Haqīqah: A Study of Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Thought" in Ulumuna, Journal of Islamic Studies Published by State Islamic Institute Mataram Vol. 20 , No. 2, 2016. 293-318.
  • See https://ulumuna.or.id/index.php/ujis/article/view/148/135
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