Tazkirat al-Awliyā ( or , lit. "Biographies of the Saints")variant transliterations: Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc. is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints (wali, plural awliya) and their miracles (karamat) authored by the Sufi Iranian poet and mystic Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar of Nishapur who lived from 1145 to 1221.
Aṭṭar's only surviving prose work comprises , beginning with the life of Jafar al-Sadiq and ending with the Sufi martyr, Mansur Al-Hallaj's. Included in the list are four eponymous Sunni madhab founders, namely Sufyan al-Thawri, Abu Hanifah, Al-Shafi'i and Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Translations Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya‘ (1990); An abridged English translation by A.J. Arberry.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. Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (2009); Translated and introduced by Paul Losensky.‘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. Le Memorial des saints (1889); A French translation by Pavet de Courteille.
List of biographies
Jafar Sadiq Uwais al-Qarni Hasan Basri Malik Dinar Muhammad Ibn Wasi' Al-Azdi Habib Ajami Abu Hazim Makki Atabah Ibn Qolam Rabia al-Adawiyya Ibrahim ibn Adham Bishr Hafi Dhul-Nun al-Misri Bayazid Bastami Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak Sufyan al-Thawri Sari al-Saqati Shaqiq al-Balkhi Abu Hanifah Al-Shafi'i Ahmad ibn Hanbal Dawud Tai Harith al-Muhasibi Abu Soleiman Darayi Muhammad Ibn Sammak Muhammad Aslam Al-Tusi Ahmad ibn Harb Hatam Asam Sahl al-Tustari Maruf Karkhi Fath Museli Ahmad Hevari Ahmad Khezruyah Abutorab Nokhshabi Yahya ibn Ma'az Shah Shoja Kermani Yusef Ibn Al-Huseyn Abu Hafs Haddad Abu Muhammad Jariri Mansur Al-Hallaj
See also Persian literature Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin
References
External links Download Tadhkirat al-Awliya from scribd (in Persian, about a half of the text from the beginning)