A Comparative Study of Miracles in Three Hagiographies Summary Translation of Almafakher in the Merit of Abdul Aljylany, Qalaed-Jawahiri, and Ghusieh

Abstract

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani, is a mystic of fifth and sixth centuries AD, and is considered as one of the elders that had written many Persian and Arabic Hagiographies. According to the importance of Hagiographies with the main theme of dignity and miracles and the attitudes of writing them, in this article, in order to identify the situation of the old and mystic of Sheikh, first of all, we have tried to introduce the works and Hagiographies that had been written about Abdul Qadir, then we study the degree of the author's rhetoric method in order to assert the dignity and to investigate all types of miracles in the three Hagiographies which has been written about him such as the summary translation of Almafakher, Qalaed-Jawahiri and Gusieh merits. Comparing these Hagiographies yielded the following results: all of them are similar to each other a lot, especially in the use of material and physical miracles to show the greatness of him, to share the greatness of positive attitudes such as a guidance and greatness in the summery translation of Almafakher and Qalaed-Jawahiri. After reviewing the direction of in these texts, differences were found between the two of the other sources. Therefore, the credibility of miracles (greatness) was determined according to the direction and method of writing.

Keywords

• Abdul Qadir Gilani
• Hagiographies
• Miracles
• Summary Translation of Almafakher
• Qaled-Jawahiri
• Ghusieh Merits
• HB Beholder in the Translation of Sheikh Abdul Qadir