'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani

Persian Sufi thumb|Mausoleum of 'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani in Sorkheh, Iran Ala' al-Dawla Simnani (fa علاءالدوله سمنانی; November 1261 – 6 March 1336) was a Persian Sūfī of the Kubrāwī order,J. C. Heesterman India and Indonesia: General Perspectives https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCZuAAAAMAAJ&q=Alaud-Daula+Simnani 1989 E. J. Brill 978-90-04-08365-3 a writer and a teacher of Sufism. He was born in Semnan, Iran. He studied the tradition of Sufism from Nur al-Din Isfarayini.Ehsan Yarshater Encyclopaedia Iranica https://books.google.com/books?id=WBAZAQAAIAAJ&q=Abd+al-+Rahman+Esfarayeni September 1996 Routledge & Kegan Paul 978-1-56859-028-8 He also wrote many books on Sufism and Islam. Among his students were great Islamic Preacher Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani and Ashraf Jahangir Semnani‘'MUQADDEMA-E- LATĀIF-E-ASHRAFI' Book in PERSIAN, Published by Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India There was disagreement in those days among ulema and Sufis about various cultural issues, most notably the distinction of Persianate Ajami Islam that was more widespread than the more puritanical Arabized forms. Some proponents of Arabized Islam were furious at Sufi elements that blended elements of Hinduism and deviated from the most strict interpretations of Shari'a. Simnani was a central figure in these debates as the intellectual wellspring of Central Asian mysticism, contrasted with the views of Ibn Arabi, who decried the Sufi philosophies.Jalal Ayesha Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia 2009 Harvard University Press 9780674039070 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=y7VVWhi9jGIC&dq=Ala+ud-Daula+Simnani&pg=PA37 References Further reading Jamal J. Elias. The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of 'Ala' ad-dawla as-Simnani https://web.archive.org/web/20160808001414/http://www.sunypress.edu/pdf/53274.pdf 2016-08-08 . SUNY Press, 1995. 0-7914-2612-2 Javad Shams Mohammad 2015 ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-islamica/ala-al-dawla-simnani-COM_0245 Lewisohn Leonard Sufism in Late Mongol and Early Timurid Persia, from ‘Ala’ al-Dawla Simnānī (d. 736/1326) to Shāh Qāsim Anvār (d. 837/1434) Babaie Sussan Sussan Babaie 2019 Iran After the Mongols Bloomsbury Publishing 177–211 978-1788315289 Category:Sufi mystics Category:Iranian Sufi saints Category:People from Semnan, Iran Category:1261 births Category:1336 deaths Category:Iranian Muslim mystics Category:Critics of Ibn Arabi