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عَلِيّ الْهَمَذَانِي

as-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Hamadānī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

714 – 786 AH / 1314 – 1384

his portrait is written, not drawn

Shāh-i Hamadān, the Kubrawī sayyid who carried Islam and the path to Kashmir with seven hundred companions.

stationWalī
born714 AH
returned786 AH

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