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maintain his duties as a judge during the day while engaged in solitary prayer in a graveyard at night, he abandoned his family, possessions and security to become an itinerant religious seeker. As he left Astarābād, he exchanged his clothes for the felt clothing of a shepherd he met. From then on he always wore this shirt as a symbol of having abandoned worldly connections and comforts.
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and the Qur'an, an understanding of hidden matters and clear interpretations of the sayings and deeds of Muhammad and his immediate entourage. Meanwhile, a steady stream of the social elite, such as scholars, ministers, military and administrative officers as well as all kinds of wealthy people would
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turned to Fażlullāh and said that true dream interpretation was like a rare star that becomes visible every 30,000 years and encompasses seven thousand worlds. He told Fażlullāh that he could see it if he stood under an orange tree, This Fażlullāh did and saw seven stars one of which was bigger than
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where he attracted two kinds of visitors: firstly, religious seekers seeking a guide and secondly those who wanted him to interpret dreams for more worldly reasons. Fażlullāh would accept no money for his interpretations and led an ascetic life, going without sleep spending the night in prayer and
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Fażlullāh fell into a trance and when he inquired as to the verses meaning, his religious teacher told him that to understand it one would have to devote their life to religious pursuits and then one could experience the meaning rather than knowing it intellectually. After a year of trying to
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When his father died when he was still a child, Fażlullāh inherited his position and appeared at the courthouse on horse back everyday, acting as a figurehead while his assistants carried out the work of the court. At the age of eighteen he had an extraordinary religious experience when a
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movement. The basic belief of the Ḥurūfiyyah was that the God was incarnated in the body of Fażlullāh and that he would appear as Mahdī when the Last Day was near in order to save Muslims, Christians and Jews. His followers first came from the village of Toqchi near
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appeared to him explaining to an old man that dream interpretation was very hard as the surface identities of characters in dreams were stand-ins for others and that dreams involved far deeper meanings than their apparent concern. Then
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the rest. And the luminous star emitted a ray of light which entered his right eye conveying a special intuitive knowledge to him. This felt like a pearly light which enabled him to understand the
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Gölpinarli, Abdülbâkî. "Faḍl Allāh Ḥurūfī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007. Brill Online.
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Fażlullāh composed his works in Standard Persian as well as the Persian dialect of Astarābād. His most significant work which establishes the foundation of Ḥurūfism is titled
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that it is someone who is silent on the outside so that his inner reality can speak through him. Shahrastani became one of his prominent followers alongside men like
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and from there, the fame of his small community spread throughout Khorasan, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Shirvan. The center of Fażlullāh Nāimī's influence was
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in the Astarābād Persian dialect was imitated by Turkish Ḥurūfīs. He also composed a book of poetry in standard Persian and gave it the title
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Abbas Amanat, Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America , I.B. Tauris, 2002
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Amīr Nūrullāh, Salāmullāh, Kalīmullāh, Kalīmatullāh-ē 'Ulyā, 'Ā'išah, Fātimah, Bībī, Umm'ul-kitāb, Fātihat'ul-kitāb
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For his spread of Hurūfism, circa 1394/1395, Fażlullāh Nā'imī was captured and imprisoned in Alinja, near
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Encyclopedia Iranica, "ASTARĀBĀDĪ, FAŻLALLĀH" (d. 796/1394), founder of the Ḥorūfī religion, H. Algar
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reveals himself in the Word and that words are composed of sounds that are associated with letters (
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Hadji Bektach: un mythe et ses avatars : genèse et évolution du soufisme populaire en Turquie
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in North east Iran, where a significant proportion of the local population were involved in
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visited him and asked him about his understanding of a true man of God. He replied quoting
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Khātamiyat-i Payāmbar-i Islām va ibṭāl-i taḥlīlī-i Bābīgarī, Bahāʼīgarī, Qādiyānīgarī
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ask his advice. Giving advice to such people as Mawlana Zayn ad-Dīn Rajayī and the
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Syncrétismes Et Hérésies Dans L'Orient Seljoukide Et Ottoman (XIVe-XVIIIe Siècles)
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Usluer, Fatih (2020). "Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament".
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Sur Les Traces Du Soufisme Turc: Recherches Sur L'Islam Populaire En Anatolie
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principle, with many people affiliated to a religious group known as the
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religious practices and continued to have a number of dreams. In one
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ASTARĀBĀDĪ, FAŻLALLĀH (d. 796/1394), founder of the Ḥorūfī religion.
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religion. From 1136 to 1381 this region was under the rule of the
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Why are you afraid of death when you have the essence of eternity?
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How can the grave contain you when you have the light of God?
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According to Encyclopedia of Islam, one of the key tenets of
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weeping continually to control his carnal desires. The Sufi
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mystical poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
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when he had a dream in which a man told him to go to
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Faḍl Allāh Ḥurūfī Astarābādī, Encyclopaedia Islamica
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Index

Fazlallah Astarabadi (Naimi)
Astarabad
Gorgan
Nakhchivan
Islam
Astarābād
Šāfiʿī
Movement
Hurufism
Lettrism
Persian
Astarābād
Nakhchivan
pseudonym
pen name
Ḥurūfī
Isfahan
Baku
Shirvan
Imadaddin Nasimi
Turkic
a series
Shia Islam
Twelver Shi'ism
The Fourteen Infallibles
Muhammad
Fatimah
Twelve Imams
Ali
Hasan

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