Al-Ba'uni

Al-Bā'ūnī is an Arabic family name (or nisba) most famously denoting the prominent dynasty of scholars and jurists descending from Nāṣir b. Khalīfa b. Faradj al-Nāṣirī al-Bā'unī al-Shāfi'ī, who began life as a weaver in the village of Bā'ūn (or Bā'ūna) in Hauran. Leaving around 750/1349 for Nazareth, Nāṣir had the following prominent descenants before the dynasty disappears from the historical record:[1]

The family is noted for its interest in Islamic mysticism and Sufism; 'many members of the Bū‘ūnī family ... were buried in a family plot adjacent to the zāwiyah of the Sufi master Abū Bakr ibn Dūwūd (d. 806/1403). This strongly suggests their attachment to this Sufi and his descendents, who were affiliated with the Urmawī branch of the Qādirīyah order'.[6] Several of the family's female members, including 'A'isha al-Ba'uniyya, married members of another prominent Damascus family, Ibn Naqīb al-Ashrāf, who were noted for being descendants of Muhammad.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 W. A. S. Khalidi, 'AL-BĀ'ŪNĪ', in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edn by H. A. R. Gibb and others (Leiden: Brill, 1960-2009), I 1109-10.
  2. 1 2 Th. Emil Homerin, 'Living Love: The Mystical Writings of ʿĀ’ishah al-Bāʿūniyyah (d. 922/1516)', Mamluk Studies Review, 7 (2003), 211-34 (p. 211); http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_VII-1_2003-Homerin_pp211-234.pdf.
  3. 1 2 Th. Emil Homerin, 'Living Love: The Mystical Writings of ʿĀ’ishah al-Bāʿūniyyah (d. 922/1516)', Mamluk Studies Review, 7 (2003), 211-34 (p. 212); http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_VII-1_2003-Homerin_pp211-234.pdf.
  4. Th. Emil Homerin, 'Writing Sufi Biography: The Case of ‘Ā’ishah al-Bā‘ūn?yah (d. 922/1517)', The Muslim World, 96 (2006), 389-99 (p. 391); DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2006.00135.x.
  5. Tahera Qutbuddin, 'Women Poets', in Medieval Islamic Civilisation: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Josef W. Meri, 2 vols (New York: Routledge, 2006), II 865-67 (p. 866), http://nelc.uchicago.edu/sites/nelc.uchicago.edu/files/2006%20Women%20Poets%20(Med.%20Islamic.%20Civ.%20Enc.).pdf.
  6. Th. Emil Homerin, 'Living Love: The Mystical Writings of ʿĀ’ishah al-Bāʿūniyyah (d. 922/1516)', Mamluk Studies Review, 7 (2003), 211-34 (p. 213); http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_VII-1_2003-Homerin_pp211-234.pdf.
  7. Th. Emil Homerin, 'Living Love: The Mystical Writings of ʿĀ’ishah al-Bāʿūniyyah (d. 922/1516)', Mamluk Studies Review, 7 (2003), 211-34 (pp. 214-15); http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_VII-1_2003-Homerin_pp211-234.pdf.
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