Rajab Bursi

Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi (d 1411) an Arab Shi'ite theologian and mystic.

Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla, and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan to escape accusations of heresy. Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions.

His main work is the "Mashariq al-anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin" ("The Orients of the Lights of Certainty concerning the "Arcana" of the Commander of the Faithful"), a work of High Imamology commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to Ali - "viz". the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs (khutba tantanjiyya) and the Sermon of the Elucidation (khutbatu'l-bayan) - from the metaphysical perspective of the school of Ibn Arabi.

Sources

B. T Lawson ""The Light of Certainty" in Heritage of Sufism", Oxford, 1999 pp 225-244