Ali B. Al-Hasan B. Jaʽdawayh's Kitab Mir'āt Al-Muruwwāt (analysis and translation)

The arabic work named as Mir'āt al-muruvvāt that is belong to Muhaddith 'Ali b. al-Hasan b. Muhammed b. Jaʽdawayh al-Rāzį al-Kazvinį, was verified and published in 2014 by Ihsan Zünnūn es-Sāmirį and Hulūd b. Muhammed al-Ahmadį through the manuscript (v. 35a-77b) in the journal 2049 of the Ayasaofya (Hagia Sophia) Department of the Süleymaniye Library, but it has not been translated into Turkish until today. This work that dedicated to vizier of the Grand Seljuk Nizam al-Mulk by Ibn Jaʽdawayh, has attracted the attention of researchers such as Franz Taeschner and Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı. The German Orientalist Taeschner translated its fortieth chapter into German, explaining the principles of futuvvah. Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı also mentioned the work of Ibn Jaʽdawayh during the review of the magazine numbered 2049 in Ayasaofya and translated the contents section and gave a list. The Kitâbu Mir'āt al-muruvvāt mainly concerned with the moral concepts of muruvvah and futuvvah, which are important in the pre-Islamic period. That is a continuation of the works of muruvvah written before it and is one of the first of the works written about futuvvah. In this aspect it is written to describe the principles of muruvvah and futuvvah in the sufistic futuvvah period and also it has the characteristic features of the transition stage from muruvvah to futuvvah. Some of its content is similar to that of Mir'āt al-murūat of Seālibį. In this work, Kitābu Mir'āt al-muruvvāt, which consists of a khutbah, a muqaddimah and forty one chapters, has been translated. The life of Ibn Jaʽdawayh, whose biography has not yet been written, has been processed and his work has been analyzed from various angles. In addition, it was tried to determine the place among other similar works of the period. Keywords: Ibn Jaʽdawayh, Mir'āt al-muruvvāt, Futuvvah, Muruvvah, Nizam al-Mulk.