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Ruzbihan al-Baqli

روزبهان البقلي

1209 CE · 606 AH

A Sufi scholar of Shiraz, known as Sadr al-Din, with contributions to several fields and one of the major writers on Persian Sufism.

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At a glance

Roles
mystic · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah al-Yunini · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi

Spirituality and Sufism

Place in the story

  • Saint (as venerated)Tradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Ruzbihan ibn Abi al-Nasr al-Baqli al-Fasawi al-Shirazi, a Sufi scholar from Shiraz, titled Sadr al-Din, according to "Mawsu'at a'lam al-ulama wa al-udaba" 1.

Standing

The encyclopedia reports that he had a share in several sciences, and that he is among the great authors of Persian Sufism 1.

Death

He died in 606 AH (1209 CE), according to the encyclopedia 1.

People and things also explored

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)· Certainty and its degrees (yaqin)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)

The body of proper conduct the believer is commanded in his words, deeds and relations with God and His servants; from the formula 'whoever believes in God and the Last Day' in Abu Hurayra's hadith Ibn Rajab derives that these traits are of the traits of iman and that deeds enter into iman, dividing the hadith's three commands into what belongs to God's rights — speaking good or keeping silent — and what belongs to His servants' rights — honouring the neighbour, withholding harm from him and honouring the guest; he transmits Aswad ibn Asram's report of the Prophet's counsel 'do not say with your tongue except what is good and do not extend your hand except to good', and that the tongue's uprightness is of the traits of iman; Abu Amr ibn al-Salah reports from Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd, the Maliki imam of his time, that the conduct of goodness and all its reins branch from four hadiths: speaking good or keeping silent, leaving what does not concern one, 'do not become angry', and loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself.