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ابْن خَفِيف الشِّيرَازِي

Abū ʿAbdillāh ibn Khafīf ash-Shīrāzī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

269 – 371 AH / 882 – 982

his portrait is written, not drawn

The great shaykh of Shiraz, a bridge between the Baghdad masters and the Sufis of Fars.

stationWalī
born269 AH
returned371 AH

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