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Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1] In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor ...
The depiction of the Ottoman sultan, which seems to be a general type rather than any specific portrait, draws from a work by Giovanni Bellini, and the depiction of James VI and I is taken from a work by John de Critz, brought to India by the English ambassador Thomas Roe. [1] In the bottom-left corner of the image is the artist Bichitr.
Sufism is the mystical branch of Islam in which Muslims seek divine love and truth through direct personal experience of God. [1] This mystic tradition within Islam developed in several stages of growth, emerging first in the form of early asceticism, based on the teachings of Hasan al-Basri, before entering the second stage of more classical mysticism of divine love, as promoted by al-Ghazali ...
John VI of Naples (died 1120 or 1123), Duke from 1097 or 1107 to his death; John VI the Affluent, Armenian Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia (1203–1221) John VI Kantakouzenos (1292–1383), Byzantine Emperor from 1347 to 1354; John VI, Count of Harcourt (1342–1389) John VI, Duke of Brittany (1389–1442) John VI, Duke of Mecklenburg ...
Pope John VI (Latin: Ioannes VI; 655 – 11 January 705) was the bishop of Rome from 30 October 701 to his death. John VI was a Greek from Ephesus who reigned during the Byzantine Papacy. His papacy was noted for military and political breakthroughs on the Italian Peninsula. He was succeeded by Pope John VII after a vacancy of less than two ...
Sayyid Badiuddin [192] was a Sufi saint who founded the Madariyya Silsila and order. [193] He was also known by the title Qutb-ul-Madar. [194] He hailed originally from Syria, and was born in Aleppo [192] to a Syed Hussaini family. [195] His teacher was Bayazid Tayfur al-Bistami. [196]
The shrine was originally established as a simple grave next to the mosque which Ali Hujwiri had built on the outskirts of Lahore in the 11th century. [1] By the 13th century, the belief that the spiritual powers of great Sufi saints were attached to their burial sites was widespread in the Muslim world, [3] and so a larger shrine was built to commemorate the burial site of Hujwiri during the ...
Attar of Nishapur, a Sufi saint and poet who lived some four centuries later, recounted a now-famous story of her early life. [5] Many of her hagiographies depict her using literary or philosophical tropes where she, like her Christian counterparts, embodied idealized religious individuals. [4]