Najmuddin Kubra

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Najmudd n-e Kubr (Persian: ) or Najm al-Din Kubra, (Shaykh Ab al-Jann b Ahmad ibn Umar) was a 13th-century Persian Sufi from Khwarezmia, the founder of the Kubrawiyya or Kibruyeh Sufi order, influential in the Ilkhanid and Timurid. His method, exemplary of a "golden age" of sufi metaphysics, was related to the Illuminism of Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi as well as to Rumi''s Shams Tabrizi. Kubra was born in 540/1145 and died in 617/1220. Among his twelve students one can mention Najmeddin Razi, Sayfeddin Bakhezri, Majd al-D n Baghd d , and Baha''uddin Walad, father of Jalaluddin Rumi. Sa''deddin Hamawi''s correspondence with Ibn Arabi shows the influence of the Kubrawi in the decades following the invasion of Kwarezmia by Gengis Khan. Najmuddin was called "the saint-maker".