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[[File:Tomb of Imam al-Busiri.jpg|thumb|right|The tomb of Imam al-Busiri in Alexandria, Egypt]]<br />
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[[File:Burdah Alexandria.jpg|thumb|right|A verse from al-Busiri's famous and much-loved poem, the [[al-Burda]], on the wall of al-Busiri's shrine in Alexandria]]<br />
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'''Al-Būṣīrī''' ({{lang-ar| ابو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري|Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī}}; 1212&ndash;1294) was a [[Sanhaja|Sanhaji]] [[Berber people|Berber]]<ref name="İÂ">{{cite book |last1=Kaya |first1=Mahmut |title=BÛSÎRÎ, Muhammed b. Saîd - An article published in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam |date=1992 |publisher=[[İslâm Ansiklopedisi]] |location=Istanbul |isbn=978-97-53-89433-3 |pages=468–470 |volume=6 (Besir Aga Camii - Cafer Pasa Tekkesi) |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/busiri-muhammed-b-said |access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=His family came from southern Morocco before settling in Egypt|title=الإمام شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري|url=http://www.alhaqqani.com/%26%231575%3B%26%231604%3B%26%231573%3B%26%231605%3B%26%231575%3B%26%231605%3B-%26%231575%3B%26%231604%3B%26%231576%3B%26%231608%3B%26%231589%3B%26%231610%3B%26%231585%3B%26%231610%3B.htm|access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Busiri|title=al-Busiri {{!}} Arabian poet|access-date=2016-07-21 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]}}</ref> [[Muslims|Muslim]] [[poet]] belonging to the [[Shadhiliyya]] order, being direct disciple of Sheikh [[Abul Abbas al-Mursi]]. His magnum opus, the ''[[Qaṣīda al-Burda]]'' ("Poem of the Mantle"), in praise of the [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]], is one of the most popular [[Islamic poetry|Islamic poems]] praising the prophet, and it is in [[Arabic language]], as much as his other ode named [[Al-Hamziyya]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
He was born in Dalāṣ,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ibn Shākir al-Kutubī |first1=Muḥammad |title=Fawāt al-wafāyāt |date=1974 |publisher=Dar Ṣādir |location=Beirut |page=362 (vol. 4) |edition=1st |url=https://shamela.ws/book/1003/1248 |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> a small town in [[Beni Suef Governorate]] in [[Egypt]] (despite the similar name, this town is not to be confused with [[Dellys]], in [[Algeria]]), and wrote under the patronage of Ibn Hinna, the [[vizier]]. His father was from [[Abusir]], hence his [[Nisba (onomastics)|nisba]] ''Al-Būṣīrī''. Sometimes he also used his nisbe ''Dalāṣīrī'' as his mother belonged to the town of Dalāṣ.<ref name="İÂ" /><br />
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In his ''Qaṣīda al-Burda'', he claims that Muhammad cured him of [[paralysis]] by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle. The poem has had a unique history (cf. [[Ignaz Goldziher|I. Goldziher]] in ''Revue de l'histoire des religions'', vol. xxxi. pp.&nbsp;304 ff.). It has been frequently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each line of the original. It has been published with [[English language|English]] translation by Faizullabhai ([[Bombay]], 1893), with [[French language|French]] translation by [[René Basset]] (Paris, 1894), with [[German language|German]] translation by C. A. Ralfs (Vienna, 1860), and in other languages elsewhere.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Būṣīrī |volume=4 |page=873}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*For a long list of commentaries, etc., cf. [[Carl Brockelmann|C. Brockelmann]]'s ''Gesch. der Arab. Litteratur'' (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp.&nbsp;264–267<br />
* La Burda du désert, T. Ikbal, F. Tidjani, M. Vâlsan, Science sacrée, 2015<br />
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