Dāya Rāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Dāya Rāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Algar, Hamid

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061463
Doc. NO	:	ALei1860
Main Entry	:	Algar, Hamid
Title & Author	:	Dāya Rāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Algar, Hamid
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(3,294 words)
Abstract	:	Najm al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Shāhāwar b. Anūshīrwān Dāya Rāzī (573–654/1177–1256) was a prominent member of the Kubrawī Ṣūfī order (originating with Najm al-Dīn Kubrā, d. 618/1221), celebrated above all for his compendious Persian-language handbook of Ṣūfī theory and practice, Mirṣād al-ʿibād min al-mabdaʾ ilā l-maʿād (“The path of God’s bondsmen from origin to return”). His distinctive name “Dāya” (wetnurse) reflects the fancy that the novice on the Ṣūfī path is like a newborn in need
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1860.pdf