Kubrawiyya
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Najmuddīn-e Kubrā (Persian: نجم‌الدین کبری) was a 13th century Persian Sufi from Khwarezmia, the founder of the Kubrawiya or Kibruyeh Sufi order, infuential 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.^[1]

Among his twelve students one can mention Najmeddin Razi, Sayfeddin Bakhezri 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".

He was the 16th master of the Oveyssi order, which is still in existence today with more than 500,000 students worldwide.^[2]

He wrote the books:

• مرصاد العباد
• منازل السائرين ومقامات الطائرين
• فوائح الجمال و فواتح الجلال
• رساله الخائف الهائم من لومه اللائم

Reputedly when two of his students were drowned by Muhammad II of Khwarezm in the river Jaxartes, he cast a curse (nefrin) on the Khwarazmid shah. Not long after, Genghis Khan annihilated the Khwarezmid Empire in 1220CE. He was murdered in 1221CE, and is said to be buried in Khwarazm.

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See also

• List of Iranian scientists and scholars