Müeyyed Cendî’nin Hayatı, Eserleri ve Ekberî Gelenekteki Yeri

The life and works of Muayyad al-Jandī, who wrote the first complete commentary on Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, contain incompleteness and some inaccura-cies due to the fact that it was prepared based on his work is titled Nafḥa al-Rūḥ and Tuḥfe al-Futūḥ in which he gave information about his biography. The author’s views on metaphysical issues have not been mentioned, except for the short work, which was written by Abdullaḥ al-Bosnawī upon a question asked to him, named Sharḥ li ba‘ḍi kelām al-Shaykh Muayyad al-Jandī fī Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. However, Jandī’s being the first Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam commentator and writing this commentory with the help and signs of Qūnawī made him an important name in the determination of how Ibn al-‘Arabī’s views must be understood and made him an important person that later commentators could not remain unaware of. And also almost all of commentators sometimes made quotations from the his works explicitly and sometimes without naming them. Jandī was born in Jand, which is a historical city located in the north east of the Aral Lake, possibly in the second quarter of the seventh century (hijri). When he wanted to take the path of Sūfism, his friends and relatives, including his father, opposed him and nevertheless he went to the pilgrimage with a spiritual sign he received, and then joined Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī, whom he described as “the perfect human of his century” to completed his spiritual journey. During the time the author was in Konya, there were many important sūfīs and scholars in the city such as Mawlānā D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī. Jandī stayed here until 674, the year his shaykh died; he then visit Baghdad, Sinop, Kenger and Tabriz and died in Tabriz in 711 according to Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam’s copying record in Lāleli /1417. Jandī has eight works that have survived until today. While some of these deal with only metaphysical subjects, some of them are works aiming at moral maturation. One of the most important works on metaphysics is Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. According to author’s statement in this work, he wrote a “big commentary” before this commentary. Although there is no clear explanation as to the relation of this “big commentary” to the present-day commentary, it is possible that some chapters may be named by the author with different names, since the writing of the work was spread over thirty years. Since this important work of Jandī is the first complete commentary of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, it has been a model and