page_title: Ibn Khafif
hierarchical_section_title: Ibn Khafif
caption_attribution_description: Boys sitting on Tomb of Ibn Khafif. Shiraz, Iran.
context_page_description: Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Khafif known as al-Shaykh al-Kabir or Shaykh al-Shirazi was a Persian mystic and sufi from Iran. He is credited with bringing Sufism to Shiraz.
  He was a Baghdad-educated Shafi'ite legal scholar who had also studied under al-Ash'ari the theologian in Basrah. In Baghdad he knew Ruwaym, Hallaj, and Shibli. After spending much of his life away from his hometown of Shiraz, he returned there to die.
context_section_description: Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Khafif (882-982) known as al-Shaykh al-Kabir or Shaykh al-Shirazi was a Persian mystic and sufi from Iran. He is credited with bringing Sufism to Shiraz.
  He was a Baghdad-educated Shafi'ite legal scholar who had also studied under al-Ash'ari the theologian in Basrah. In Baghdad he knew Ruwaym, Hallaj, and Shibli. After spending much of his life away from his hometown of Shiraz, he returned there to die.
caption: The tomb of Ibn Khafif is in the old traditional quarters of Shiraz.
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