# Al-Busiri > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Al-Busiri > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Al-Busiri.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Busiri > Source revision: 1345754488 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Sufi poet (1212–1294)}} {{other uses|Busiris (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox writer | 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 = [Dalāṣ](/source/Dal%C4%81%E1%B9%A3), [Beni Suef](/source/Beni_Suef), [Egypt](/source/Egypt) | death_date = 1294 | death_place = [Alexandria](/source/Alexandria), [Egypt](/source/Egypt) | occupation = Poet, Sufi mystic | language = Arabic | nationality = Egyptian | movement = [Shadhili](/source/Shadhili) | notableworks = ''[Al-Burda](/source/Al-Burda) (Poem of the Mantle), [Al-Hamziyya](/source/Al-Hamziyya)'' | genres = [Sufi poetry](/source/Sufi_poetry) }} {{Sufism}} [[File:Burdah Alexandria.jpg|thumb|left|A verse from al-Busiri's poem ''[al-Burda](/source/al-Burda)'' on the wall of his shrine in [Alexandria](/source/Alexandria)]] '''Al-Būṣīrī''' ({{langx|ar|أبو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري|Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī}}; 1212–1294) was a [Sanhaji](/source/Sanhaja){{cite book |last1=Kaya |first1=Mahmut |title=BÛSÎRÎ, Muhammed b. Saîd - An article published in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam |date=1992 |publisher=[İslâm Ansiklopedisi](/source/%C4%B0sl%C3%A2m_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|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|archive-date=21 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221050008/http://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|url-status=dead}}{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Busiri|title=al-Busiri {{!}} |access-date=2016-07-21 |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)}} [Sufi Sunni Muslim](/source/Sufism) poet belonging to the [Shadhili](/source/Shadhili), and a direct disciple of the [Sufi saint](/source/wali) [Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi](/source/Abu_al-Abbas_al-Mursi). His magnum opus, the ''[Qaṣīda al-Burda](/source/Qa%E1%B9%A3%C4%ABda_al-Burda)'' "Poem of the Mantle" in praise of [Prophet](/source/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam) [Muhammad](/source/Muhammad) is one of the most popular [Islamic poems](/source/Islamic_poetry) of the genre. It is in [Arabic](/source/Arabic), as is his other ode named "[Al-Hamziyya](/source/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](/source/Beni_Suef_Governorate) in [Egypt](/source/Egypt) (despite the similar name, this town is not to be confused with [Dellys](/source/Dellys), in [Algeria](/source/Algeria)), and wrote under the patronage of Ibn Hinna, the [vizier](/source/vizier). His father was from [Abusir](/source/Abusir), hence his [nisba](/source/Nisba_(onomastics)) ''Al-Būṣīrī''. Sometimes, he also used his nisbe ''Dalāṣīrī'' as his mother belonged to the town of Dalāṣ. In his ''[al-Burda](/source/al-Burda)'', he claims that Muhammad cured him of [paralysis](/source/paralysis) by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle. The poem has had a unique history (cf. [Ignác Goldziher](/source/Ign%C3%A1c_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](/source/English_language) translation by Faizullabhai ([Bombay](/source/Bombay), 1893), with [French](/source/French_language) translation by [René Basset](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Basset) (Paris, 1894), with [German](/source/German_language) translation by C. A. Ralfs (Vienna, 1860), and in other languages elsewhere.{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Būṣīrī |volume=4 |page=873}} == See also == {{Portal|Islam|Egypt}} * [List of Sufis](/source/List_of_Sufis) * [List of Sufi saints](/source/List_of_Sufi_saints) ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *For a long list of commentaries, etc., cf. [C. Brockelmann](/source/Carl_Brockelmann)'s ''Gesch. der Arab. Litteratur'' (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 264–267 * La Burda du désert, T. Ikbal, F. Tidjani, M. Vâlsan, Science sacrée, 2015 {{Sufi}} {{Arabic literature}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Busiri}} Category:13th-century Berber people Category:13th-century Arabic-language poets Category:13th-century Egyptian people Category:Berber Muslims Category:Shadhili order Category:Sunni Sufis Category:Sufi writers Category:Berber poets Category:Sanhaja {{Africa-poet-stub}} {{Sufism-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Al-Busiri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Busiri) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Busiri?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.