Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Khafīf, 889-982

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Name (Latin)
Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Khafīf, 889-982
Other forms of name
al-Shirazi, Muhammad ibn Khafif, -982
al-Shirazi, Muhammad ibn Khafif, d. 982
Muhammad Abu 'Abdallah ibn Khafif, al-Shirazi
Abu 'Abdallah ibn Khafif, al-Shirazi, d. 982
al-shirazi, Ibn Hafif, d. 982
Ibn Hafif al-Shirazi, d. 982
Ibn Hafif, Muhammad al-Shirazi, d. 982
Ibn Khafif al-Shirazi, d. 982
Date of birth
0889
Date of death
0982
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 97601138
Wikidata: Q5984223
Library of congress: no 98117967
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Wikipedia description:

Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Khafif (882-982) known as al-Shaykh al-Kabir or Shaykh al-Shirazi was a Persian mystic and sufi from Iran. He is credited with bringing Sufism (tasawwuf) to Shiraz. He was a Baghdad-educated Shafi'ite legal scholar who had also studied under al-Ash'ari, the theologian in Basrah. In Baghdad he knew Ruwaym, Hallaj, and Shibli. After spending much of his life away from his hometown of Shiraz, he returned there to die.

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