Three other works by the author of Laṭāʼif al-iʿlām, wrongly attributed to Qāšānī.

Résumé

This article examines three recently discovered works by the author of Laṭā’if al-iʿlām, a well-known treatise on the technical terminology of Sufism, which has been erroneously attributed to Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī, Saʿīd al-Dīn Fargānī and, especially, to ʿAbd al-Razzāq Qāšānī. It analyses what we know of its real author, possibly called Ibn Ṭāhir (a Sufi Sunni thinker of the school of Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī), his milieu and his life (13th- 14th century), by studying the Laṭā’if and these three previously unknown works: al-Dalā’il al-qaṭʿiyya, al-Durra al-farīda and Tadkirat al-fawā’id.1 A new edition of the Laṭā’if (2000) and the edition of several of Qāšānī’s short works (2000), both produced by M. Hādīzādeh, as well as a review of my earlier article on the matter by G. Elmore (2000), a second review by N. Pourjavadi in his book Išrāq wa-ʿirfān (2002), and some considerations by Pierre Lory in the Encyclopaedia of Islam (Online – E3 English), are also taken into consideration.