ABU’L-WAFĀʾ ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ, famous Sufi of Kobrawī affiliation, esoterist, scholar, poet, and musician, known as “angelic master” (pīr-e ferešta) or “angel…

ABU’L-ḤASAN ḴARAQĀNĪ, ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD B. JAʿFAR B. SALMĀN (352-425/963-1033), Sufi shaikh of Ḵaraqān, some 20 km north of Basṭām…

KAŠF AL-MAḤJUB OF SEJZI (“Unveiling the hidden”), the Persian version of an Ismaʿili treatise originally written in Arabic by the…

GELPKE, RUDOLF, Swiss scholar, writer, and translator of Persian literature (b. Waldenburg, Switzerland, 24 December, 1928; d. 19 January 1972;…

NASAFI, ʿAZIZ b. Moḥammad, 7th/13th century mystical thinker and scholar from Nasaf (Naḵšab) in Transoxania (present Qarshi or Karshi in…