Jān-i Jānān, Maẓhar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Jān-i Jānān, Maẓhar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Weismann, Itzchak

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062358
Doc. NO	:	ALei2755
Main Entry	:	Weismann, Itzchak
Title & Author	:	Jān-i Jānān, Maẓhar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Weismann, Itzchak
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(960 words)
Abstract	:	Maẓhar Jān-i Jānān (1111–95/1699–1781), a leading Naqshbandī-Mujaddidī Ṣūfī shaykh in Mughal Delhi, was born into a noble family of Afghan extraction that served in the Mughal administration. He received military as well as religious education, especially in ḥadīth studies, but decided at the age of eighteen to give up that official vocation in favour of the Ṣūfī quest. Moving to Delhi, he followed the path under a succession of masters of the Muajaddidī offshoot of the Naqshbandiyya (whose eponymous founder, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband, died
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2755.pdf