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A thread on #IbnArabi in #SouthAsia people consider the main conduit to be the #Chishti Sufis and their ethical principle of #sulh_e_kull which is assumed to be an expression of #wahdatalwujud 1/
first link is the famous poet Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (d. 1289 in Damascus), a disciple and son in law of #BahauddinZakariyya in #Multan later moved to study with Qunawi and was present at Rumi’s funeral in Konya - later commentators on the #Lamaat linked his verses with #IbnArabi 2/ 
Persian verse was a major conduit for the dissemination of the metaphysics and hermeneutics of #IbnArabi and for the later tradition two key works were prominent 3/
The basics on #Bedil - the standard 4 volumes of his collected works were printed in Kabul in 1960s - 1: ghazals 2: shorter poems and qasidas and some masnavis 3: masnavis 4: his prose work Chahar Unsur which is useful for his biography and his correspondence 1/
#Bedil wrote four masnavis 1: Muhit e A’zam his first work in 1078/1667 which is a cosmology based on #IbnArabi 2: Tilism e hayrat was completed two years later on another theme of #IbnArabi the quest for ultimate reality and the #PerfectHuman 2/
3: Tur e ma’rifat was completed around 20 years later and dedicated to his patron Shukrullah Khan and concerns geography and the seasons and his partly his praise of India 4: his longest masnavi ‘Irfan was completed near the end of his life in 1124/1712 3/
A thread on the Persian poet of Patna/Azimabad Mirza ‘Abd al-Qadir #Bedil died 1721 in Delhi iranicaonline.org/articles/bidel… 1/
The eminent litterateur Mohammad Reza Shafi’i Kadkani on his book refers to #Bedil as the ultimate #sabk_e_hindi poet because of his wonderful use of intricate and affective imagination and imagery concerning the metaphysical 2/
Shafii Kadkani also describes #Bedil as a ‘country that needs to be visited and discovered but which is not easy to access and not everyone can gain entry to it because of its stringent entry requirements’ hence leading to his neglect in Iran 3/
