Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad al-ʿĀrifī (d. 761/1360), the author of Manāqib al-ʿārifīn, the well-known Persian hagiographical source on Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, including his father, spiritual masters and his family, and the early saints of the Mawlawiyya Sufi order. Because of his strong attachment to Jalāl al-Dīn ʿĀrif (Ulu Arif Çelebi), Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s grandson, Aflākī became known as al-ʿĀrifī (Aflākī, 1/4, 388; Thāqib Dadah, 3/6–7). His fath…