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أَبُو عَلِيّ الْفَارْمَدِي

Abū ʿAlī al-Farmadī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

407 – 477 AH / 1016 – 1084

his portrait is written, not drawn

The 'Tongue of Khurasan', shaykh of Imam al-Ghazali's brother and a link binding the Naqshbandi and other Khurasani lines.

stationWalī
born407 AH
returned477 AH

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.