Giuseppe Scattolin Professor of Sufism and Islamology With Mr. ʿAbd al-Samīʿ Salāma, editor of manuscripts at the Egyptian National Library icon-calendar Tuesday February 14ᵗʰ, 2017 The  commentary of al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291) on ʿUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ’s (d. 632/1235) poem entitled al-Tāʾiyya al-kubrā is one of the oldest commentaries of this poem, after the one by Saʿīd al-Dīn al-Farġānī (d.