Nur al-Din Abdul Samad ibn Ali al-Isfahani (

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: نورالدین عبدالصمد نطنزی), or Abdussamad Esfahani was an

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sage of the 13th century. Al-Isfahani hailed from

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and stayed in

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. He was a student of Najib al-Din Bozgush Shirazni, himself a student of Shihab al-Din Umar Suhrawardi. His importance in

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stems from the fact that he was the teacher of

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, the author of

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, a famous mystical

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(interpretation) of the

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. Al-Isfahani died in 1299 and he was succeeded by

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in his

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Tomb

After his death, Abdul Samad al-Isfahani was buried in Natanz. A shrine was built over his grave under the orders of his disciple Shams al-Din Natanzi, with assistance from the vizier of the Mongol

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ruler Muhammad Khudabandah,

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. The tomb of Al-Isfahani now stands in the center of the

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, under its conical dome.

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