Mir Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani (1392-1464; fa, ) was a mystic (

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) who gave name to the

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school of Islam. He wrote al ''Fiqh al-Ahwat'' (

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) and ''Kitab al-Aetiqadia'' (Book of Faith).

Life

Nurbakhsh's real name was Muhammad bin Abdullah. His father was born in Qain and his grandfather in al-Hasa, whence in some

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s (lyrics) he styles himself as Lahsavi (one from al-Hasa). His father migrated from

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to Qain in Qahistan, where Nurbakhsh was born in 795 A.H. (1393 C.E.). Thus his full name as appeared in his prose works is Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani. Nurbakhsh became a disciple of Sayyid Ishaq al-Khatlani, himself a disciple of

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani ( fa, میر سید علی همدانی; CE) was a Persian scholar, poet and a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order. He was born in Hamadan, Iran and preached Islam in Central Asia and Kashmir as he travelled to p ...

. Through his writings Nurbakhsh made an attempt to bridge the gap between the orthodox

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'ism and Shi'ism and gave an Islamic

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of religious moderation in his book titled ''Al-Fiqh al-Ahwat'' (Moderate Islamic Jurisprudence). His tomb is in Suleqan near

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.امامزاده سید محمد نوربخش در سولقان تهران
(translated title: Imamzadeh Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh in Soolqan, Tehran)

Works

Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh wrote of about 150 works in Arabic or Persian. # ''Al-Fiqh Al-Ahwat'' (Islamic Jurisprudence) # ''Kitab al-Aetiqadia'' (Book of Faith) # ''Silsila Dhahab'' (in Arabic and Persian) # ''Risal fi Ilm Firasat'' or ''Insan-nama'' # ''Kashf al-Haqaeeq'' # ''Risala Maash al-Salikeen'' # ''Makarim al-Akhlaq'' # ''Silsila al-Auliya'' (Arabic) # ''Risala Nooria'' or ''Nur al-Haq'' # ''Risala Miraajia'' (Persian) # ''Risal al Huda'' (Arabic) # ''Risala Irfani'' (Persian) # ''Risala Aqsam-e-Dil'' (Persian)

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* Sufia Nurbakhshia
Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions,Shahzad Bashir - 2003
{{authority control Sufi mystics Iranian Sufi saints Iranian Sufis 1339 births Year of death missing History of Kashmir Sufism in India

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