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أَبُو يَعْقُوب يُوسُف الْهَمَدَانِي

Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

440 – 535 AH / 1048 – 1140

his portrait is written, not drawn

The great master of Central Asia from whom four successors carried the path; the trunk from which the Khwajagan grew.

stationWalī
born440 AH
returned535 AH
day keptOne

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

His Daysأَيَّامُهُ

Urs of Shaykh Abu Yāqub Yūsuf al-Hamadāni12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal

Days of the Islamic calendar kept in his memory — each opens in the prayer book.