'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani
'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani (
Semnan, Iran. He studied the tradition of Sufism from Nur al-Din Isfarayini.[2] He also wrote many books on Sufism and Islam. Among his students were Ashraf Jahangir Semnani[3] and Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
.
There was disagreement in those days among
Ajami
Islam that was more widespread than
the more puritanical Arabized forms. Some proponents of Arabized Islam were furious at Sufi elements that blended elements of Shari'a. Simnani was a central figure in these debates as the intellectual wellspring of Central Asian mysticism, contrasted with the views of Ibn Arabi, who decried the Sufi philosophies.[4]
References
- ISBN 978-90-04-08365-3.
- ISBN 978-1-56859-028-8.
- ^ ‘'MUQADDEMA-E- LATĀIF-E-ASHRAFI' Book in PERSIAN, Published by Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
- ISBN 9780674039070.
Further reading
- Jamal J. Elias. The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of 'Ala' ad-dawla as-Simnani Archived 2016-08-08 at the ISBN 0-7914-2612-2
- Javad Shams, Mohammad (2015). "ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī". In ISSN 1875-9831.
- Lewisohn, Leonard (2019). "Sufism in Late Mongol and Early Timurid Persia, from 'Ala' al-Dawla Simnānī (d. 736/1326) to Shāh Qāsim Anvār (d. 837/1434)". In ISBN 978-1788315289.
