Zahed Gilani
Sheikh Zahed Gilani , full name Taj al-Din Ibrahim ibn Ruschan Amir al-Kordi al-Sanjani ( Arabic تاج الدين ابراهيم الكردي السنجاني; * 1216 ; † 1301 ) was an Islamic mystic and grand master of the Sufi order named after him, Zahediyyeh.
Many pilgrims are drawn to Zahed Gilani's tomb in the town of Sheikhanvar near the city of Lāhijān in the Iranian province of Gilan . Zahed Gilani's ancestors came from the city of Sanjan in what was then Greater Khorasan in northeastern Iran , now part of Uzbekistan . They fled from the Seljuks , who then began to conquer Khorasan. Zahed Gilani's family settled in Gilan in the late 11th century. Sheikh Zahed managed to capture the ruling Ilkhan ruler Ghazan Khan for himself and to acquire great religious and cultural influence.
Sheikh Zahed Gilani's most important student was Safi Al Din Ardebili, who later gave its name to the Safavid dynasty . Safi Al Din married Zahed Gilani's daughter Bibi Fatemeh and, passing over Zahed Gilani's eldest son, was appointed as the successor to Sheikh Zahed as Grand Master of the Zahediyyeh Order. Zahed Gilani's second son married a daughter of Safi Al Din from a previous marriage.
In the 17th century, a descendant of Zahed Gilani named Sheikh Pir Hussein Abdul Zahedi wrote the Silsilat al-Nasab Safawiyya , a hagiography of the Safavid dynasty.
literature
- EG Browne. Literary History of Persia . 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
- Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature . Reidel Publishing Company. 1968. ISBN 90-277-0143-1
- Monika Gronke , dervishes in the forecourt of power: social and economic history of north-west Iran in the 13th and 14th centuries . Wiesbaden 1993
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| SURNAME | Gilani, Zahed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taj Al-Din Ibrahim Al-Kordi Al-Sanjani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Islamic mystic and grand master of the Sufi order of the Zahediyyeh |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1216 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1301 |