Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi

نسيم الدين التبريزي

c. 1417 CE · 820 AH

Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi, leader of Aleppo's Hurufis — his following swelled and his doctrine spread until the sultan ordered his death in 820: beheaded, flayed and crucified 1.

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theologian
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Abd al-Karim al-Jili · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi

Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi

Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi, a resident of Aleppo and shaykh of the Hurufis there. His followers grew in number, and his doctrine arose and spread, until the sultan ordered his execution. He was beheaded, his skin was flayed and his body was crucified, in 820 AH 1.

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Execution of the Hurufi leader Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi at Aleppo, 820

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Aleppo· Execution of the Hurufi leader Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi at Aleppo, 820

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 153
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A city in northern Syria, among the oldest inhabited cities in the world, flourishing under the Hamdanid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman eras.