Hagiography is the literary genre of biographies about holy people. In Islamic Persia, hagiography developed as a genre during the eleventh century CE, in Khurāsān, a region from which many eastern Ṣūfīs came. It tended to focus on Sūfī saints. The tradition declined around the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries CE, but was revived in the nineteenth and still exists today online.[1]
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but was revived in the nineteenth and still exists today online. Hagiography in Persian can be seen as going back to biographical writings about Zarathushtra...
A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy', and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical...
Suhaldev or Suheldev was a legendary king from Shravasti. PersianHagiography Mirat-i-Masudi, written in 17th century, popularly mentions him to have...
authors and considered a significant work in mystical hagiography. The oldest surviving work of Persian literary criticism after the Islamic conquest of Persia...
Franklin, Carmela Vircillo. The Latin dossier of Anastasius the Persian: hagiographic translations and transformations. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval...
The Safavid dynasty (/ˈsæfəvɪd, ˈsɑː-/; Persian: دودمان صفوی, romanized: Dudmâne Safavi, pronounced [d̪uːd̪ˈmɒːne sæfæˈviː]) was one of Iran's most significant...
Gwalior was occupied by the Hindu Tonwar dynasty. However, some Persianhagiographical texts suggest that the manuscript was brought by Sufi shaykh Gisu...
Ibn Bazzaz (Persian: ابن بزاز; fl. 1385) was the author of the Safvat as-safa, a Persianhagiography of the Sufi shaykh Safi-ad-din Ardabili (died 1334)...
Middle Persian works from the Sassanian period. Among the texts included in the unique MK are: the Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan is a hagiography of Ardashir...
According to hagiographical account which is not agreed upon by all Rumi scholars, Rumi encountered one of the most famous mystic Persian poets, Attar...
Junayd of Baghdad (Persian: جُنیدِ بَغدادی; Arabic: الجنيد البغدادي) was a Persian mystic and one of the most famous of the early Islamic saints. He is...
Islamic history, and appeared almost exclusively in the private medium of Persian and other miniature book illustration. The key medium of public religious...
architecture. London: Phaidon Press. p. Plate 19. Smith, W. L. (1992). "Some hagiographical motifs in the Śaṅkaravijayas". Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens...
the chivalric romance Mirat-i-Masudi ("Mirror of Masud"), a Persian-language hagiography written by Abdur Rahman Chishti in the 1620s. According to this...
Zoroastrian texts came to be composed in this language. An example of a late hagiography is the Māhyārnāma ("Book of Māhyār"). There is a genre of texts known...
included in the Golden Legend, the famous 13th-century compendium of hagiography, and he is sometimes shown in art, as in The History of the True Cross...
that drew from both traditions. According to the Shri Sai Satcharita, a hagiography written shortly after his death, his Hindu devotees believed him to be...
70-71 Franklin, Carmela. "The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian: Hagiographic Translations and Transformations" pp. 113 Pollard, Richard "An edition...
Puṣṭimārga regards Sūrdās as an initiated disciple of Vallabha, and his hagiography is told in the Caurāsī Vaiṣṇavan kī Vārtā by Gokulnāth and Harirāy. Sūrdās'...
described in her confessor Jacob’s hagiographic work, the oldest extant work of Georgian language literature. The hagiography details Shushanik's extensive...
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