Al-Ghazali — Carta al sultán Sanjar el Selyúcida
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~840 palabras · 4 pasajes
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- APAAl-Ghazali. (n.d.). Al-Ghazali letter to Sultan Sanjar Seljuki [Al-Ghazali — Carta al sultán Sanjar el Selyúcida]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/al-ghazali/al-ghazali-letter-to-sultan-sanjar-seljuki
- MLAAl-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali letter to Sultan Sanjar Seljuki [Al-Ghazali — Carta al sultán Sanjar el Selyúcida]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/al-ghazali/al-ghazali-letter-to-sultan-sanjar-seljuki.
- ChicagoAl-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali letter to Sultan Sanjar Seljuki [Al-Ghazali — Carta al sultán Sanjar el Selyúcida]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/al-ghazali/al-ghazali-letter-to-sultan-sanjar-seljuki.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
Una carta al sultán Sanjar, el selyúcida más poderoso de su tiempo.
Contexto e historia
La situación es extraordinaria: un hombre que ha renunciado a los honores y a su cátedra escribe al soberano sobre la justicia y sobre lo que un gobernante debe responder ante Dios. Pertenece a la tradición de los espejos de príncipes, pero lo escribe alguien que ya no tenía nada que ganar. Procede del Fada'il al-anam, la recopilación de la correspondencia persa de al-Ghazali, y en el catálogo figura como pieza suelta. No es ninguna de sus obras mayores: para esas están aquí mismo La alquimia de la felicidad y las Confesiones de al-Ghazali. El original es persa; esto es una traducción inglesa.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
You should know that by now I am fifty-three years old. Forty years of my life have been spent in the various peaceful haunts of famous scholars and learned men under whom I studied until I was raised to such a rank that people began to know me and understand the change in my ideas. For twenty years I lived in the rein of your royal father who did all that he could to make both Isfahan and Baghdad the most flourishing cities of the world. On several occasions I served, on behalf of your father, as ambassador to the court of the Abbasid Caliph Muktadar Billah and did all that was possible to remove certain misconceptions between the Seljuk empire and the Abbasid Caliphate. I authored seventy books. For several years I lived and preached in Mecca and Jerusalem, and when I visited the tomb of Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, in Jerusalem and offered Al Fatihah, at this mazar, I solemnly pledged that: #I shall neither attend the court of a king, nor receive anything of the nature of emolument from the governments in any shape or form whatsoever, since such circumstances would lesson the worth of any service to the people. #I will not entangle myself in anything that provokes religious controversy. For the last twelve years I have been solemnly faithful to the pledge I made at the tomb of Hadrat Abraham. Now I have received an urgent message from your Majesty asking me to attend your court. In compliance with your orders, therefore, I have journeyed to Mashhad Rada, en route to the capital, but as an after-thought and in view of the aforesaid religious pledge to which I have bound myself, I have made up my mind to cancel the proposed visit. I beseech your Majesty to consider the right I have in fulfilling a religious pledge and that I may not suffer just because of my honesty. If I may undertake to counsel, I think you would do well to refrain from forcing me to attend your court, nor would you like it in me if I attended in violation of the pledge.…