Flashcards: Iranian Sufis

Shams-i-Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی‎‎) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian Muslim, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz).

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Shaykh Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi (c.1145-1234) was a Kurdish or Persian Sufi and nephew of Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi.

Ahmad Ghazālī (Persian: احمد غزالی‎‎; full name Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī) was a Persian mystic, writer, and eloquent preacher (c. 1061–1123 or 1126).

Haji Bektash Veli or Ḥājī Baktāsh Walī (Persian: حاجی بکتاش ولی‎‎ Ḥājī Baktāš Walī; Turkish: Hacı Bektaş Veli) was an Alevi Muslim mystic, Sayyid, humanist and philosopher, who lived from 1209 to 1271.

Baba Tahir (var. Baba Taher Oryan Hamadani; Persian: باباطاهر‎‎; b. 938- d. 1021) was an 11th-century Persian poet.

Mansur al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج‎‎ Abū 'l-Muġīṭ Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ; Persian: منصور حلاج‎‎ Mansūr-e Ḥallāj) (c. 858 – March 26, 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH – 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, writer and teacher of Sufism.

Najmuddīn-e Kubrā (Persian: نجم‌الدین کبری‎‎) was a 13th-century Persian sufi from Khwarezm and the founder of the Kubrawiya, influential in the Ilkhanate and Timurid dynasty.

"Shahāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī (Persian: شهاب‌الدین سهروردی‎‎, also known as Sohrevardi) was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in Islamic philosophy and mysticism that drew upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas.

Mo'in al-Din Junayd ibn Mahmud ibn Muhammad Baghnovi Shirazi was a Sufi mystic and poet of Persia from the 14th century.

Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi (Persian: حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود ‌بن آدم سنایی غزنوی‎‎) was a Persian poet who lived in Ghazni between the 11th century and the 12th century in what is now Afghanistan.

Sahl al-Tustari (Persian: سهل شوشتری‎‎) or al-Tustari, born Abu Muhammed Sahl ibn 'Abd Allah (c818 C.E. (203 AH) - c896 C.E. (283 AH)), was a Persian Muslim scholar and early classical Sufi mystic.

Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; Persian: ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم‎‎), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فرید الدین) and ʿAṭṭār (عطار, Attar means pharmacist not perfumer "the perfumer"), was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.

'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hūzān Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī, (Persian: عبدالکریم قُشَیری/Arabic: عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري) (also Kushayri) was born in 986 CE (376 AH) in Nishapur which is in Khorasan Province in Iran.

Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, also called Mulla Sadrā (Persian: ملا صدرا‎‎; also spelled Molla Sadra, Mollasadra or Sadr-ol-Mote'allehin; Arabic: صدرالمتألهین‎‎) (c. 1571/2 – 1640), was an Iranian Shia Islamic philosopher, theologian and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century.

Nizam al-Din Ubaydullah Zakani (Persian: خواجه نظام‌الدین عبیدالله زاکانی‎‎), or simply Ubayd-i Zakani (Persian: عبید زاکانی‎‎ c. 1300 – 1371 CE), was a Persian poet and satirist of the 14th century (Mongol Period) from the city of Qazvin.

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (/ɡæˈzɑːli/; Arabic: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالي‎‎; c. 1058 – 18 December 1111), shortened as Al-Ghazali and known as Algazelus or Algazel to the Western medieval world, was a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian descent.

Junayd of Baghdad (835-910) was a Persian mystic and one of the most famous of the early Sufis, of Islam.

Moinuddin Chishti (1141 - 1236) also known as Gharib Nawaz (Benefactor of the Poor), was an imam, Islamic scholar and philosopher from South Asia.

Baba Fakhruddin Suharwardy was a Sufi saint who lived in the 12th century.

Shah Muhammad Ali Hisâm-ad-Dîn Naqshbandî (Arabic: الشيخ مُحَمَّدْ علي حسام الدين نقشبندي, Persian: محمد علي حسام الدین نقشبند‎‎, Turkish: Şâh Ali Hüsâmeddîn) also known as Hâzrat-i Shâh and Bâbâ Ali (b. 1861 Tawella, Iraq / d. 1939 Bahakon, Iraq) was a 19th-century sufi, awliya' and Islamic scholar born in Tawella village which was part of Ottoman Empire lands at that time.

Maruf Karkhi (Persian: معروف کرخی‎‎), known also by his full name Abu Mahfuz Maruf Ibn Firuz al-Karkhi, was a Sufi Saint who is a pivotal figure in Sufism.

Sheikh ‘Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Al-Naqshbandi (Arabic: الشيخ عثمان طويلة نقشبندي, Turkish: Osman Sirâceddîn Nakşibendi) known as Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn at-Tavîlî or Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Al-Awal (b. 1781 Tawella, Iraq / d. 1867 Tawella, Iraq) was an 18th-century influential sufi, awliya' and Islamic scholar.

Āzar Kayvān (b. between 1529 and 1533; d. between 1609 and 1618; the first name sometimes transcribed Adhar), was a Zoroastrian high priest of Estakhr and native of Fars who emigrated to the Gujarat in Mughal India during the reign of the Emperor Akbar and became the founder of a Zoroastrian school of ishraqiyyun or Illuminationists.

Mahmoūd Shabestarī (1288–1340) (Persian: محمود شبستری‎‎) is one of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century.

Abū al-Najīb Abd al-Qādir Suhrawardī (Persian: ابوالنجیب عبدالقادر سهروردی‎‎) (1097–1168) was a Sunni Persian Sufi who was born in Sohrevard, near Zanjan, and founded the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order.

Abu Ali al-Rudbarior Abuzer Rudbari (Persian: ابو علی رودباری‎‎), known also as Rudbari, was a famous early Persian sufi saint of the 9th century.

Shaykh Abu Bakr Shibli (861 - 946) was an important Sufi of Persian descent, and a disciple of Junayd Baghdadi.

Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrahīm ‘Irāqī (Persian: فخرالدین ابراهیم عراقی‎‎; 10 June 1213 – 1289), Persian Sufi master, poet and writer.

Mir Syed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani (Persian: میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی‎‎; 1314–1384) was a Persian Sūfī of the Kubrāwī order, a poet and a prominent Shafi'i Muslim scholar.

Abu Muhammad Sheikh Ruzbehan Baqli (1128–1209) was an Iranian poet, mystic, and sufi from Fasa, Fars, Iran.

Sheikh Jamal-ud-Din Ahmad was a direct descendant of Imam Abu Hanifa, the renowned Persian jurist of Islam.