Sa'd al-Din al-Hamawi

Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾayyad ibn Ḥamuwayh al-Ḥamuwayī al-Juwaynī[a] (1190/99 – 1252/60)[b] was a Persian Ṣūfī shaykh from a prominent Ṣūfī family. He belonged to the order of the Kubrāwiyya. A prolific writer, he is credited with at least 47 works plus poetry. He was a noted mystic and much of his writing is esoteric and numerological.

Born and died in Khorasan, he studied in Damascus, went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and lived for a time in Tabrīz and Mosul. He fled the Mongol invasion of Khwārazm in 1220. By 1242 he had contracted an illness that resulted in the loss of a finger.

  1. ^ Hofer 2014, p. 13, n. 40.
  2. ^ a b c d e Elias 1994, pp. 53–58.
  3. ^ a b c d e Landolt 1997.
  4. ^ a b Elias 1994, pp. 58–60.
  5. ^ a b Fuʾād 1934.


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