Dec 18, 2021
Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī was a Shʿī poet who was born in Iraq but lived much of his life in Mardin in modern day Turkey. He was an exemplar of versatility in verse for the much neglected Mamluk period of literary history.
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01:20 Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī was born in 1278 just over a decade after the...
Dec 4, 2021
Ibn ʿArabī was an Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher. He is renowned among practitioners of Sufism by the names al-Shaykh al-Akbar ("the Greatest Shaykh"; from here the Akbarian school derives its name).
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01:36 Ibn ʿArabī was born in 1165 in Andalusia whose literary
history we covered...