al-Busiri

{{Infobox poet

| name = Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Busiri al-Sanhaji

| image = Tomb of Imam al-Busiri.jpg

| caption = The tomb of al-Busiri in Alexandria, Egypt

| birth_date = 1212

| birth_place = Dalas, Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt

| death_date = 1294

| death_place = Alexandria, Egypt

| occupation = Poet, Sufi Mystic

| language = Arabic

| nationality = Egyptian

| notableworks = Qaṣīda al-Burda (Poem of the Mantle), Al-Hamziyya

| influences = Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi

| genres = Sufi Poetry

}}

File:Burdah Alexandria.jpg on the wall of his shrine in Alexandria]]

Al-Būṣīrī ({{langx|ar| ابو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري|Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī}}; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji{{cite book |last1=Kaya |first1=Mahmut |title=BÛSÎRÎ, Muhammed b. Saîd - An article published in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam |date=1992 |publisher=İslâm Ansiklopedisi |location=Istanbul |isbn=978-97-53-89433-3 |pages=468–470 |volume=6 (Besir Aga Camii - Cafer Pasa Tekkesi) |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/busiri-muhammed-b-said |access-date=30 April 2022}}{{cite web|last=His family came from southern Morocco before settling in Egypt|title=الإمام شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري|url=http://www.alhaqqani.com/%26%231575%3B%26%231604%3B%26%231573%3B%26%231605%3B%26%231575%3B%26%231605%3B-%26%231575%3B%26%231604%3B%26%231576%3B%26%231608%3B%26%231589%3B%26%231610%3B%26%231585%3B%26%231610%3B.htm|access-date=29 January 2014}}{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Busiri|title=al-Busiri {{!}} Arabian poet|access-date=2016-07-21 |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}} Sufi Sunni Muslim poet belonging to the Shadhili, and a direct disciple of the Sufi saint Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi. His magnum opus, the Qaṣīda al-Burda "Poem of the Mantle" in praise of Prophet Muhammad is one of the most popular Islamic poems of the genre. It is in Arabic, as is his other ode named "Al-Hamziyya".

Biography

He was born in Dalāṣ,{{cite book |last1=Ibn Shākir al-Kutubī |author-link=Ibn Shākir al-Kutubī |first1=Muḥammad |title=Fawāt al-wafāyāt |date=1974 |publisher=Dar Ṣādir |location=Beirut |page=362 (vol. 4) |edition=1st |url=https://shamela.ws/book/1003/1248 |access-date=8 April 2022}} a small town in Beni Suef Governorate in Egypt (despite the similar name, this town is not to be confused with Dellys, in Algeria), and wrote under the patronage of Ibn Hinna, the vizier. His father was from Abusir, hence his nisba Al-Būṣīrī. Sometimes, he also used his nisbe Dalāṣīrī as his mother belonged to the town of Dalāṣ.

In his Qaṣīda al-Burda, he claims that Muhammad cured him of paralysis by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle. The poem has had a unique history (cf. Ignác Goldziher in Revue de l'histoire des religions, vol. xxxi. pp. 304 ff.). It has been frequently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each line of the original. It has been published with English translation by Faizullabhai (Bombay, 1893), with French translation by René Basset (Paris, 1894), with German translation by C. A. Ralfs (Vienna, 1860), and in other languages elsewhere.{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Būṣīrī |volume=4 |page=873}}

al-Busiri

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