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Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

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Fatih Usluer*
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Ankara University, École Pratique des Hautes Études-Paris
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Abstract

In Hurufi history, the identity of Faḍlallāh’s children is a controversial subject. Although the Hurufi writings provide information on Faḍlallāh Astarābādī, the information related to his family has been analyzed incorrectly. More than ten different names for Faḍlallāh's children are in circulation. This lack of clarity prevents the precise historical analysis of his children. This article shares new findings regarding the Faḍlallāh family using a unique copy of Faḍlallāh’s genealogy, which provides a list of his children and grandchildren. Other sources, including Faḍlallāh’s testament, the Maḥramnāma, and primary Hurufi sources, are also considered. This article reveals Faḍlallāh’s four children, only three of whom were alive when he died, and the roles played by Faḍlallāh’s family at the time of Shāhrukh and Jahānshāh.

Keywords

Faḍlallāh Astarābādī;HurufismTīmūrShāhrukhFaḍlallāh FamilyVaṣiyyatnāma
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Iranian Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , July 2021 , pp. 605 - 631
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2021

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Footnotes

His doctoral dissertation focused on Hurufism and its influence on Persian and Turkish literature. He has edited and published Persian and Turkish Hurufi manuscripts in ten volumes, including Faḍlallāh’s ʿArshnāma with a translation into Turkish; a translation of Jāvidānnāma into Turkish; Nasīmī’s Muqaddimat al-Ḥaqā’iq; and several research papers on Hurufism. He has been lecturing on Turkish Language and Culture at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat since 2019 as a visiting scholar.

The author would like to express his deepest gratitude toward the anonymous reviewers and the journal editors for their careful comments at different stages of the review process.

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