Seh Resaleh: Asrar al-Arefin, Sharab al-Asheqin, al-Montaha

• Persian Title: سه رساله اسرار العارفین، شراب العاشقین، المنتهی
• Transliterated Title: Siḥ risāla: Asrār al-ʿĀrifīn, Sharāb al-ʿĀshiqīn, al-Muntahā
• English Title: Three Treatises: The Secrets of the Gnostics, The Wine of the Lovers, and The Ultimate Goal
• Author: Ḥamza Fanṣūrī (d. 1607 CE)
• Editors: Amīr-Ḥusayn Ẕikr-gū; Līlā Ḥājī-Mahdī Tājir
• Language: Persian–Arabic
• ISBN: 978-600-203-154-9
• Publication Year: 2018
• Pages: 315
• Format: PDF
• Category: Textual Studies
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 317

【Summary】

Ḥamza Fanṣūrī (d. 1607 CE) is widely regarded as the earliest figure to articulate and disseminate the principles of Sufism in the Malay world, earning him recognition as the father of Malay mystical literature. No Sufi texts in Southeast Asia can be securely dated earlier than his writings. The surviving works attributed to him demonstrate his mastery of Arabic and Persian, even though he composed primarily in Malay using the Jawi script.

Among his corpus of prose and poetic writings, three treatises—Asrār al-ʿĀrifīn, Sharāb al-ʿĀshiqīn, and al-Muntahā—are especially significant for their philosophical and mystical content. The present volume offers a Persian translation of these three works, accompanied by facsimile reproductions of the original Jawi manuscripts preserved in the Leiden University Library.

This edition provides scholars with direct access to the earliest expressions of Sufi metaphysics in the Malay world and sheds new light on the transregional transmission of Persian and Arabic mystical thought into Southeast Asia.