A Digital Atlas of Sacred Geography
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Saints whose death anniversary falls this Hijri month (sourced).
Full name Abu Muhammad Sadr al-Din Ruzbihan b. Abi'n-Nasr al-Baqli; born in Fasa in the Fars region of Iran, he was a Persian Sufi, scholar and poet known as 'Shaykh-i Shattah' for his famous ecstatic utterances. He founded the Ruzbihaniyya order at his ribat in Shiraz, continuing the Khafifiyya line tracing back to Ibn Khafif. He died in 606 (1209) in Shiraz.
A Sufi who, after affiliating with Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi and serving many years in Baghdad, returned to his native Shiraz where he carried out spiritual guidance at his lodge. He is regarded as the founder of the Buzghushiyya (Najibiyya) branch of the Suhrawardiyya order. He died in 678 (1279) in Shiraz and was succeeded by his son Abd al-Rahman (d. 716/1316).
