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GOWHARIN, SAYYED SĀDEQ
Peter Avery
Gowharin came from an old and distinguished family which traced its lineage back to the eponymous founder of the Nurbaḵšiyya, Sayyed Moḥammad Nurbaḵš (1392-1464). Himself a Sufi of the Ḵāksār order, his interest in mysticism went far beyond that of an academic.
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ABU’L-FAŻL ḴOTTALĪ
H. Algar
(d. 453/1061?), preceptor of Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Hoǰvīrī (d. 465/1073), the author of the celebrated Persian treatise on Sufism, Kašf al-maḥǰūb.
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INDIA xxv. MUTUAL MYSTICAL INFLUENCES
cross-reference
See under SUFISM.
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EXEGESIS
Multiple Authors
(Ar. tafsīr), commentary on or interpretation of sacred texts.
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HADITH
Shahab Ahmed, A. Kazemi-Moussavi, Ismail K. Poonawala, Hamid Algar, Shaul Shaked
term denoting reports that convey the normative words and deeds of the Prophet Moḥammad; it is understood to refer generically to the entire corpus of this literature and to the thousands of individual reports that comprise it.
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ABŪ ḤAMZA ḴORĀSĀNĪ
B. Reinert
(d. 290/903), Sufi born and active in Nīšāpūr.
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ʿAWĀREF AL-MAʿĀREF
W. C. Chittick
a classic work on Sufism by Šehāb-al-dīn Sohravardī (1145-1234)
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JAʿFAR AL-ṢĀDEQ
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ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH (ca. 702-765), the sixth imam of the Imami Shiʿites. He spent most of his life in Medina, where he built up a circle of followers primarily as a theologian, Ḥadith transmitter, and jurist (faqih).
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HAMZA NİGARİ
Tahsin Yazi
(Ḥamza Negāri) Ḥāji Mir Ḥamza Efendi b. Mir Pāšā, Sufi and poet from Azerbaijan, who wrote in both Persian and Turkish (d. 1886).
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ABŪ BAKR KALĀBĀḎĪ
W. Madelung
author of the well-known compendium of Sufism al-Taʿarrof le-maḏhab ahl al-taṣawwof.