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" al-Dārānī, Abū Sulaymān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Ess, Josef
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English
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1060117
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ALei514
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van Ess, Josef
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al-Dārānī, Abū Sulaymān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Ess, Josef
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(797 words)
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Abū Sulaymān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. ʿAṭiyya al-ʿAnsī al-Dārānī (d. c.215/830) was an early mystic. His family belonged to a South Arabian tribe that had settled in Umayyad Syria, but he spent some time in Iraq; a brother of his lived in Baghdad, probably as a merchant (cf. al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Taʾrīkh Baghdād , Cairo 1349/1931, 8:366, no. 4464). He was said to have originated in Wāsiṭ, and he certainly visited the Ṣūfī colony in ʿAbbādān, near Baṣra, possibly under the influence
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Islam.
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ALei514.pdf
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