Aflākī ʿĀrifī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Aflākī ʿĀrifī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Losensky, Paul E.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1059849
Doc. NO	:	ALei246
Main Entry	:	Losensky, Paul E.
Title & Author	:	Aflākī ʿĀrifī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Losensky, Paul E.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,066 words)
Abstract	:	Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad Aflākī ʿĀrifī (d. 761/1360) was a Persian Ṣūfī writer, the author of Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (“Feats of the gnostics”), a biography of the leaders of the Mawlavī Ṣūfī order, including Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. The origins of Aflākī are uncertain. He may have come from Sarāy, the capital city of the Golden Horde on the Volga River (the Golden Horde was a Mongol, later Turkicised, khānate, 640s–908/1240s–1503, that comprised the northwestern part of the Mongol empire). Aflākī’s father is described “a
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei246.pdf