Dhūl-Nūn Abū l-Fayḍ Thawbān b. Ibrāhīm al-Miṣrī (Arabic: ذو النون المصري; d. Giza, in 245/859 or 248/862), often referred to as Dhūl-Nūn al-Miṣrī or Zūl-Nūn...

his book The Sufis, the Afghan scholar Idries Shah suggested that Dhul-Nun al-Misri might have been the origin of the character Hiram Abiff in the masonic...

(Arabic: الطريقة التجانية, romanized: al-Ṭarīqa al-Tijāniyya) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Ahmad al-Tijani. It originated in the Maghreb...

attain unity with God. Bastami's predecessor Dhul-Nun al-Misri (d. CE 859) was a murid "initiate" as well. Al-Misri had formulated the doctrine of ma'rifa (gnosis)...

Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra or Hasan al-Basri, was an ancient Muslim preacher, ascetic, theologian,...

quoted alchemists that had lived in Egypt: Zosimos of Panopolis and Dhul-Nun al-Misri.: XIV  In later European literature, ibn Umayl became known by a number...

الطريقة القادرية, romanized: al-Ṭarīqa al-Qādiriyya) is a Sufi mystic order (tariqa) founded by Shaiykh Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani Al-Hassani (1077–1166, also...

Mansour al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج, romanized: Abū 'l-Muġīth al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj) or Mansour Hallaj (Persian: منصور...

antiquity continued in the writings of medieval scholars such as Dhul-Nun al-Misri and al-Maqrizi. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European...

Arab historians in medieval Egypt during the 9th and 10th centuries. Dhul-Nun al-Misri and Ibn Wahshiyya were the first historians to study hieroglyphs,...

romanized: 'Abdulqādir Gīlānī, Arabic: عبد القادر الجيلاني, romanized: ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the...

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; c. 716 – 801 CE) was a poet, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious...

The order was brought to Herat and later spread across South Asia by Mu'in al-Din Chishti in the city of Ajmer. The Chishti Order is known for its emphasis...

In 1650s rose one of the most famous Anatolian Khalwati shaykhs, Niyazi al-Misri. Niyazi was famous for his poetry, his spiritual powers, and public opposition...

the Grand Sanussi (Arabic: السنوسي الكبير as-Sanūssiyy al-Kabīr), the Algerian Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi. During World War I the Senussis fought against...

teach a disciple without directly criticizing him. Shah states that Dhul-Nun al-Misri the Egyptian was the earliest exponent of malamati. Blame Sufism Futuwwa...

Naqib al-Misri; Nuh Ha Mim Keller (1368). "Reliance of the Traveller" (PDF). Amana Publications. pp. 778–795. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri;...

(1806–1931) Bande Nawaz Barkat Ali Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Bishr al-Hafi Dada Masiti Dawud al-Ta'i Dhul-Nun al-Misri El Hadj Malick Sy Esad Erbili Feisal Abdul Rauf Galip...

Ahmad al-Murtada, bin Ali, bin Hasan al-Asghar, bin Mahdi, bin Muhammad, bin Hasan al-Qasim, bin Husayn, bin Ahmad al-Salih al-Akbar, bin Musa al-Thani...

Chishti is the most famous sheikh; the Suhrawardi Order, named after Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi ; the Burhaniyya becoming popular within the people of Pakistan...

Adham Bishr Hafi Dhul-Nun al-Misri Bayazid Bastami Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak Sufyan al-Thawri Sari al-Saqati Shaqiq al-Balkhi Abu Hanifah Al-Shafi'i Ahmad...

a human scarecrow as a warning to other sailors on the strait. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...

Ibn 'Arabi by al-Izz is reported by 'Abd al-Ghaffar al-Qusi, al-Fayruzabadi, al-Qari al-Baghdadi, al-Suyuti, al-Sha'rani, al-Maqqari, Ibn al-'Imad, and some...

the "Sultan". The exact birth date of Abu-l-Qāsim al-Junayd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Junayd al-Khazzāz al-Qawārīrī (Arabic: أبو القاسم الجنيد بن محمد الخزاز...

(1513–1575, buried in Shergarh, Punjab) Dawūd al-Qayṣarī Dawud Tai (d. circa 777-782) Dhul-Nun al-Misri Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1280...

the direction of the Sufi saint Dhul-Nun al-Misri for a time, and Tustari in his turn was one of the Sufi mystic Mansur Al-Hallaj's early teachers. Tustari...

accepting all manifestations of Destiny without complaint. According to Dhul-Nun al-Misri, rida means preferring God's wishes over one's own in advance, accepting...

media related to Mevlevi order. Mevlevi Order of America Video of Ensemble Al-Kindi & The Whirling Dervishes of Damascus Pictures of Mevlevi museum in Istanbul...

Baha' al-Din Naqshband (Persian: بهاءالدین محمد نقشبند; 1318–1389) was the eponymous founder of what would become one of the largest Sufi Sunni orders...

until the present day. One of the earliest Egyptian Sufis was Dhul-Nun al-Misri (i.e., Dhul-Nun the Egyptian). He was born in Akhmim in AD 796 and achieved...