A Draft Critical Text of Suhrawardi's Glorifications to the Intelligences the Souls and the Elements

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A draft critical text of Suhrawards

Glorifications to the Intelligences, the Souls and the Elements

Based on the two earliest MSS and two recent printed transcriptions

N. Wahid Azal 2!"

#ntroduction

A$on% the ite$ized list of the wor&s of Shih'(uddn )a*+' i(n ,a(ash i(n A$ra& al-Suhraward d. !!/!0 in the entr+ on hi$ (+

Sha$suddn Mu*a$$ad al-Shahraz1r d.!23/40 in the nuzhatul-arw5 there is $ention of a specific piece entitled the 66glorifications to the

intelligences, the souls and the elements77.!8his ite$ -- (ein% a pra+er of onl+a few pa%eslon% -- is found in two of the oldest &nown MSS of

Suhrawards existin% corpus. 9urin% the twentieth centur+ it was translated into :rench alon% with Suhrawards other specificall+

de;otional pieces or theur%ical doxolo%ies0 (+ 0

as part of the

chapter entitled Le Livre dHeures inhis Lrchange

Em!our!r"? #uinze trait"s et r"cits m$sti%ues@aris? !/>"0. 8he doxolo%+ was su(seuentl+ full+ transcri(ed in the ori%inal Ara(ic and uoted in

a so$ewhat fault+ ;ersion (+ the e$inent persianist Mu*a$$ad-8a 9'nishpazh1h d. !//"0 in the appendix to his festschriftarticle offered

to the late A*$ad r'$ d. !//0 which discusses the de;otional wor&s of Suhraward see (elow for citation0.

8he source for 9'nishpazh1hs

transcri(ed text appears to (e an edition of the nafCis al-fun&nof Mu*a$$ad i(n Ma*$1d A$ul thcentur+ A see esp. 2 D- /. Niid5 ."iid5 /

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dispute and do not occur in either of the two MSS. 8hese ha;e (een i$$ediatel+ noted. So$e words in the passa%es occurrin% within9n@

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5 and3or one or the other MSS that we hold (alances0 the readin%5 ha;e (een placed inside an%le (rac&ets and then noted.8he

colon ? separates the section headin%s. 8he passa%es ha;e (een nu$(ered in @ersian fro$

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0. Much of Male&s ;ocalization as well as

his punctuation has (een retained5 especiall+ in

0. Others ha;e (een added elsewhere in the text (e+ond those of Male& while others ha;e

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two MSS (ecause the resolutions he often adopts in his readin%s (etween the$ is e;idenced in the lucid conceptual flow of ideas in the

ele%ant :rench of his translation5 not to $ention the insi%htful %losses and annotations that often acco$pan+ the$. #n countless places5

howe;er5 when recourse to these two MSS would ha;e resol;ed the discrepancies59n@

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ha;e not done so5 (ut instead ha;e either

introduced or repeated errors in their own printed ;ersions that could ha;e (een easil+ a;oided if these two MSS had (een properl+

consulted5 not to $ention =or(in. 8hese discrepancies5 now fixed in our text5 are reflected (elow in the apparatus. 8o reiterate5 =or(ins

adept na;i%ation throu%h these two difficult MSS5 where others ha;e stu$(led5 has (een of enor$ous help to the tas& at hand5 a ;erita(le

orientation5 as it were.

8wo other MSS that contain this specific piece are presentl+ &nown -H na$el+5 8op&api Sara+ MZzes[5 Ah$et ### G2!> ff. !>D(-!>a0

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