Abdullah Ansari portrayed on a stamp in Tajikistan (2010)
Title
Shaykh al-Islām, Sage of Herat
Personal
Born
1006
Herat, Ghaznavid Empire
Died
1088 (aged 81-82)
Herat, Ghaznavid Empire
Religion
Islam
Denomination
Sunni Islam
Jurisprudence
Hanbali[3]
Creed
Athari[1]
Movement
Sufi[2]
Muslim leader
Influenced
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya[4][5][6]
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)
ʿAbd Allāh (عبد الله)
Patronymic (Nasab)
Ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Manṣūr ibn Matt (بن محمد بن علي بن محمد بن أحمد بن علي بن جعفر بن منصور بن مت)
Teknonymic (Kunya)
Abū Ismāʿīl (أبو إسماعيل)
Toponymic (Nisba)
al-Harawī (الهروي)
Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1088) (Persian: خواجه عبدالله انصاری) also known as Pir-i Herat (پیر هرات) "Sage of Herat", was a Muslim Sufi saint [7][8] who lived in Herat (modern-day Afghanistan). Ansari was a commentator on the Qur'an, scholar of the Hanbali school of thought (madhhab), traditionalist, polemicist and spiritual master, known for his oratory and poetic talents in Arabic and Persian.[9]
Tomb in Herat
^Halverson, Jeffry R. (2010). Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam. Pelgrave Macmillan. pp. 47. ISBN 9781137473578.
^Halverson, Jeffry R. (2010). Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam. Pelgrave Macmillan. pp. 48. ISBN 9781137473578.
^Halverson, Jeffry R. (2010). Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam. Pelgrave Macmillan. pp. 37. ISBN 9781137473578.
^Slitine, Moulay; Fitzgerald, Michael (2000). The Invocation of God. Islamic Texts Society. p. 4. ISBN 0946621780.
^Ovamir Anjum. "Sufism without Mysticism: Ibn al-Qayyim's Objectives in Madarij al-Salikin". University of Toledo, Ohio. p. 164.
^Livnat Holtzman (January 2009). "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah". Essays in Arabic Literary Biography. Bar Ilan University: 219.
^A. G. Ravân Farhâdi, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Anṣārī al-Harawī, "ʻAbdullāh Anṣārī of Herāt (1006-1089 C.E.): an early Shia Ṣūfi master", Routledge, 996.
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