Bisṭāmī, Bāyazīd

by Mojaddedi, Jawid

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Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī , was an early ecstatic Ṣūfī from north-central Iran. His grandfather Surūshān was born a Zoroastrian, -an indication that al-Bisṭāmī had Persian origins despite the fact that his transmitted sayings are in Arabic. Very little is known about the life of al-Bisṭāmī, whose importance lies in his biographical tradition, since he left no written works. The…

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Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī , was an early ecstatic Ṣūfī from north-central Iran. His grandfather Surūshān was born a Zoroastrian, -an indication that al-Bisṭāmī had Persian origins despite the fact that his transmitted sayings are in Arabic. Very little is known about the life of al-Bisṭāmī, whose importance lies in his biographical tradition, since he left no written works. The often inconsistent early biographical

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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eng Islam

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Mojaddedi, Jawid

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