Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Surūshān Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī

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A ninth-century Persian Sufi philosopher.

Names

  • Arabic: طيفور بن عيسى بن شروسان أبو يزيد البسطامي = Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Shurūsān Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī 1
  • Arabic: أبو يزيد البسطامي = Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭamī 2
  • Persian: بایزید بسطامی = Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī 3

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 421 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 3:57 [Arabic].
    • Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭamī: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), III, 585 [English].
  • 3Bayazid Bistami: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 3 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Mary Papadopoulos, and Jessica Mutter, “Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Surūshān Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5508.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: abstract and matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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