ʿĀʾisha bt. Yūsuf b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr al-Bāʿūniyya , a prolific writer and poet, and a Ṣūfī, was born in Damascus, around the middle of the ninth/fifteenth century, and died on 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 923/30 November 1517. She was a distinguished member of the al-Bāʿūnī family, which served…
Najm al-Dīn Abū l-Maʿālī Muḥammad b. Suwār (or Sawwār) Ibn Isrāʾīl b. al-Khiḍr b. Isrāʾīl al-Shaybānī al-Dimashqī (603–77/1206–78), was a famous Arab Ṣūfī poet of the seventh/thirteenth century. He was born on 12 Rabīʿ I 603/17 October 1206 in Damascus, where one of his ancestor…
ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. al-Murshid b. ʿAlī Ibn al-Fāriḍ al-Saʿdī (576-632/1181-1235) is the most celebrated Ṣūfī Arab poet in the history of Islam. He was born in Cairo on 4 Dhū l-Qaʿda 576/23 March 1181 after his father had moved there from Hama, probably to serve in the judiciary, wh…