<研究動向・研究レビュー>オスマン朝期のスーフィズム思想研究に関する先行研究レビュー --ニヤーズィー・ムスリーに関する研究動向と今後の展望

Abstract

This paper aims to examine previous studies on a Sufi poet of 17th century Ottoman Empire, Niyâzî-i Mısrî (d. 1105/1694). Mısrî is mostly known as a Sufi poet (Mutasavvıf şâir) from Malatya, because of the images of him derived from one of his main works, Dîvân (collection of poems). He devoted the first half of his life to wandering around Anatolia and the Arabic world seeking a true master, and the remainder to grass-roots activities as a Sufi sheikh. He was affected by the anti-Sufi oriented stagnation movement known as the "Kadızâde movement, " and so lived in exile on Limnos Island in his later years. He is counted among the school of Ibn ‘Arabī (d. 638/1240), whose thought on the Unity of Existence, Waḥda al-wujūd is well known. Mısrî had also written many articles (risâle) affected by Ibn ‘Arabī's ideas. Despite the publishing of many books or translations about Mısrî's works, especially about his Dîvân, most studies on him are based on literary or historical methods and only a few studies have focused specifically on his thought from the philosophical perspective by reference to his risâles. In order to uncover Islamic thought in Ottoman Empire and Sufi's agency of reception of the ideological heritage, which was inherited by the school of Ibn ‘Arabī, I would like to raise issues concerning the necessity for philosophical analyses on Mısrî's works and suggest a new perspective on Mısrî, as a Sufi thinker.