Ibn Khafif

Ibn Khafif
The tomb of Ibn Khafif is in the old traditional quarters of Shiraz.
Personal
Born882, Shiraz
DiedAH 371 (981/982),[1] Shiraz
ReligionIslam
EraMedieval era
RegionDamascus
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[2][3]
CreedAsh'ari[4]

Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Khafif (882-982) known as al-Shaykh al-Kabir or Shaykh al-Shirazi was a Persian[5] mystic and sufi from Iran. He is credited with bringing Sufism (tasawwuf) to Shiraz.[6][7]

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.[8]

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  2. ^ Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (1986). Ibn 'Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path. Translated by John Renard. Paulist Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780809127306.
  3. ^ Ibn Khafif (1999). Correct Islamic Doctrine/Islamic Doctrine. Translated by Gibril Fouad Haddad. Islamic Supreme Council of America. p. 3. ISBN 9781930409019.
  4. ^ Lewis, B.; Menage, V.L.; Pellat, Ch.; Schacht, J. (1986) [1st. pub. 1971]. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. III (H-Iram) (New ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 823. ISBN 9004081186.
  5. ^ Irwin, Robert, ed. (2010). The new Cambridge history of Islam. Vol. 4 (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-521-83824-5.
  6. ^ Limbert, John W., Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City. University of Washington Press. 2004. ISBN 0-295-98391-4. p.112.
  7. ^ http://www.sunnah.org/aqida/asha'ira2.htm#Ibn%20Khafif Archived 2020-02-10 at the Wayback Machine The Great Asha'ri Scholars
  8. ^ Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (1986). Ibn 'Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path. Translated by John Renard. Paulist Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780809127306.