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" Aḥrār, ʿUbaydallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Gross, Jo-Ann
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English
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1060615
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ALei1012
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Gross, Jo-Ann
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Aḥrār, ʿUbaydallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Gross, Jo-Ann
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(3,277 words)
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Kh v āja ʿUbaydallāh Aḥrār (Ramaḍān 806–895/March 1404–1490) was a renowned pīr (lit., “old” in Persian, hence “Ṣūfī master”) of the Naqshbandī ṭarīqa (lit., “way,” hence “Ṣūfī order”) in late ninth/fifteenth-century Samarqand ( kh v āja (lit., “Master”), is an honorific designation of Ṣūfī masters, which often came to be used as a surname). He was a khalīfa (lit., “deputy”) of Yaʿqūb Charkhī (d. 851/1447), influential at the Tīmūrid courts of Samarqand and Herat, and an important economic figure in Māwarānnahr (Yaʿqūb Charkhī was himself
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Islam.
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ALei1012.pdf
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