Sobre Yaḥyà al-Balansī (m. 665/1267), discípulo devoto de Ibn Sabʿīn, y sus obras

Abdelkrim Ben-Nas

doi:10.3989/alqantara.2023.005

Authors

Abdelkrim Ben-Nas Universidad de Alicante https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4838-0626

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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2023.005

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al-Šuštarī, Ibn Sabʿīn, al-ṭarīqa al-sabʿīniyya, Ibn Sabʿīn’s disciples, Yaḥyà al-Balansī

Abstract

This paper deals with Yaḥyā al-Balansī, a distinguished and devoted disciple of the well-known Sufi Ibn Sabʿīn of Ricote. Until now he has gone largely unnoticed, a situation that the present study aims to remedy. Yaḥyā al-Balansī most likely was born in Valencia, or had family origins there. Some time after 642/1244, he travelled to Alexandria, where he spent time in the company of the šayḫ Abū l-Ḥasan al-Šāḏilī. After returning to al-Andalus he travelled again to the Maghreb. In Béjaïa, ca. 648/1250, he met the Sufi master Ibn Sabʿīn and became his devoted disciple. He presumably travelled with Ibn Sabʿīn to Mecca, via Tunisia and Egypt, and visited Medina and Lebanon as well. It appears that Yaḥyā was an itinerant Sufi, much like Abū l-Ḥasan al-Šuštarī. Yaḥyā died in 665/1267 and was buried in al-Balyana in Upper Egypt. In addition to biographical information, this study presents excerpts from Yaḥyā al-Balansī’s few extant works, translations of which appear at the end of the study: al-Wirāṯa al-muḥammadiyya, a text provided by Ibn al-Ṭawwāḥ and a short piece that appears at the end of one of Ibn Sabʿīn’s Rasāʾil. The study further attempts to establish Yaḥyā al-Balansī’s authorship of Kitāb al-Sulūk fī ṭarīq al-qawm, his only extant complete treatise. The study concludes, importantly, that: 1. Although in the heading of Kitāb al-Sulūk, Yaḥyā introduces himself as Ibn Sabʿīn’s son, it will be proved that he was not. 2. Yaḥyā al-Balansī is the author of Kitāb al-Sulūk.

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