Najmeddin Razi

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| name = "Abdollah ibn Muhammad Najmeddin Razi"| title= "Najmeddin Razi"| birth = | death = 1247 CE| Maddhab = Sufi| school tradition= | Ethnicity =
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Sheikh Abdollah ibn Muhammad Najmeddin Razi (b. Rayy - d. 1247 Baghdad) was a 13th century famous Persian Sufi from Khwarezmia.

He was one of the students of the great Sufi mystic Najmeddin Kubra.

When his master was murdered in 1221 CE, he fled to Hamadan, then to Ardabil, and then to Anatolia where he finally settled with his contemporary fellow master Rumi.

There he put the teachings of his master Najmeddin Kubra into a writing in Persian called مرصاد العباد من المبدا الی المعاد He died in 1247 CE.

References

* E.G. Browne. "Literary History of Persia". (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
* Jan Rypka, "History of Iranian Literature". Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K

ee also

*List of Persian poets and authors
*Persian literature
*List of Iranian scientists