Al-Burini
Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as al-Hasan al-Burini, was a
Life
Al-Burini was born in mid-July 1556 in the village of
Al-Burini learned the
After completing his studies, al-Burini became the head of the
Literary works
One of al-Burini's main bodies of work was Tarajim al-A'yan min Abna al-Zaman, a collection of 205 biographies of notable contemporary scholars, rulers and artisans, completed in 1614 after ten years.[5] Fadl Allah ibn Muhibb Allah edited and published the work in 1667 with a supplement.[1] The work was republished in Damascus in 1959.[5]
Al-Burini often traveled to different parts of Syria, penning two works about his trips to
His poetry is mostly found in a diwan located in Istanbul. His epistle to As'ad ibn Muiin al-Din al-Tibrizi al-Dimashqi is located in Gotha, his Marathi poems for the Sufi Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Barakat al-Qadiri is preserved in Berlin and number of his poems are held in the British Museum in London.[1]
He penned a commentary on the diwan of Ibn al-Farid in 1591 and a commentary on the latter's al-Ta’iyya al-Sughra in 1593.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Brockelmann 1960, p. 1333.
- ^ a b c d Mullazadih 2013, p. 45.
- ^ Mullazadih 2013, pp. 45–46.
- ^ a b c Mullazadih 2013, p. 46.
- ^ a b c d e Mullazadih 2013, p. 47.
- ^ Abu-Husayn 1985, p. 62.
Bibliography
- Abu-Husayn, Abdul-Rahim (1985). Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575-1650. Beirut: American University of Beirut. ISBN 9780815660729.
- OCLC 495469456.
- Mullazadih, Muhammad Hani (2013). "Al-Burini, Hasan ibn Muhammad Dimashqi Saffuri". In ISBN 978-1-908433-12-1.
Further reading
- El-Rouayheb, Khaled. "al-Burini, Hasan b. Muhammad (1556-1615)". Historians of the Ottoman Empire. The University of Chicago: Division of the Humanities. Retrieved 8 January 2022.