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Sufism

body of mystical practice within Islam

54 dated entries naming Sufism, drawn from 52 separate years between 717 CE and 1718 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century

  • 717Rabia Basri, Muslim Sufi mystic and saint (d. 801)source
  • 796Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Egyptian scholar and Sufi (d. 859)source

9th century

  • 801Rabia Basri, Muslim Sufi mystic and saint (b. 717)source
  • 804Bayazid Bastami, Persian Sufi (d. 874)source
  • 830Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi, Muslim Sufi (d. 871)source
  • 830Junayd of Baghdad, Muslim Sufi (d. 910)source
  • 840Abu al-Hassan al-Nuri, Muslim Sufi (approximate date)source
  • 859Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Egyptian scholar and Sufi (b. 796)source
  • 861Abu Bakr Shibli, Muslim Sufi (d. 946)source
  • 871Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi, Muslim Sufi (b. 830)source
  • 874Bayazid Bastami, Persian Sufi (approximate date)source
  • 889Ibn Marwan, Muslim Sufi leader (approximate date)source

10th century

  • 910Junayd Baghdadi, Persian Sufi mystic (b. 835)source
  • 946Abu Bakr Shibli, Persian official and Sufi (b. 861)source
  • 948Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, Persian Sufi mystic and writer (d. 1037)source
  • 967December 7 – Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1049)source
  • 986Al-Qushayri, Persian Sufi scholar and theologian (d. 1072)source

11th century

  • 1037Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, Persian Sufi mystic (b. 948)source
  • 1048Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Persian Sufi writer and poet (d. 1141)source
  • 1049January 12 – Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (b. 967)source
  • 1072December 30 – Al-Qushayri, Persian Sufi scholar and theologian (b. 986)source
  • 1088July 24 – Ibn al-Arif, Moorish Sufi scholar and writer (d. 1141)source
  • 1093Ahmad Yasawi, Turkic poet and Sufi (d. 1166)source
  • 1097Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi, Persian scholar and Sufi (d. 1168)source

12th century

  • 1118Ahmad al-Rifa'i, Arab founder of the Rifa'i Sufi Ordersource
  • 1119Ahmed-Al-Kabeer, Arab Sufi teacher (d. 1182)source
  • 1126Abu Madyan, Andalusian mystic and Sufi master (d. 1198)source
  • 1129Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti, Moroccan Sufi writer (d. 1204)source
  • 1141Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Persian Sufi writer, mystic and poet (b. 1048)source
  • 1153Abu Mohammed Salih, Almohad Sufi leader (d. 1234)source
  • 1155Abu Muhammad Salih, Almohad Sufi leader (d. 1234)source
  • 1156Abu Said al-Baji, Almohad Sufi scholar (d. 1231)source
  • 1166Ahmad Yasawi, Turkic Sufi religious leader (b. 1093)source
  • 1169Ahi Evren, Bektashi Sufi preacher and philosopher (d. 1261)source
  • 1199Aisha Al-Manoubya, Almohad female Sufi mystic (d. 1267)source

13th century

  • 1209Ruzbihan Baqli, Persian Sufi master and poet (b. 1128)source
  • 1216Zahed Gilani, Arab Sufi leader and writer (d. 1301)source
  • 1217Ibn Sab'in, Andalusian Sufi philosopher (d. 1271)source
  • 1219Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, Moorish Sufi leader (d. 1287)source
  • 1238Nizamuddin Auliya (or Awliya), Indian Sufi scholar (d. 1325)source
  • 1253Amir Khusrau, Indian Sufi musician, poet and scholar (d. 1325)source
  • 1257Mohammad Baba As-Samasi, Abbasid Sufi leader (b. 1195) (tradition places his death at 1354)source
  • 1258Usman Serajuddin, Bengali Sufi scholar and mystic (d. 1357)source
  • 1261November – 'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani, Persian Sufi mystic and writer (d. 1336)source
  • 1271May 25 – Shah Jalal, Indian Sufi leader and mystic (d. 1346)source
  • 1274Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi, Indian Sufi poet (d. 1337)source
  • 1274February 19 – Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Afghan Sufi poet (b. 1177)source
  • 1276Ahmad al-Badawi, Almohad Sufi scholar and mystic (b. 1200)source
  • 1291March 16 – Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari, Indian Sufi preacher (b. 1196)source

14th century

  • 1318Baha' al-Din Naqshband, Persian Sufi religious leader (d. 1389)source
  • 1321August 7 – Bande Nawaz, Indian Sufi scholar and writer (d. 1422)source

15th century

  • 1447April 22 – (5 Safar 851 AH) Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar becomes the new leader of the tariqa (order) of Süleymancılar among adherents of Sufism in what is now Turkey.source

16th century

  • 1531The University of Sarajevo is founded by Gazi Husrev-beg based on Sufi philosophy.source

18th century

  • 1718January 7 – In India, Sufi rebel leader Shah Inayat Shaheed from Sindh who had led attacks against the Mughal Empire, is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discuss peace.source

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