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رُوزْبِهَان الْبَقْلِي

Rūzbihān al-Baqlī ash-Shīrāzī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

522 – 606 AH / 1128 – 1209

his portrait is written, not drawn

The 'Doctor of the ecstatics' of Shiraz, whose visionary Unveiling of Secrets maps the stations of divine love.

stationWalī
born522 AH
returned606 AH

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