Aḥrār, Kh^wājah Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh (Ramaḍān 806–895/March 1404–1490), was a famous Sufi shaykh of the Naqshbandiyya Sufi order (ṭarīqa) in Transoxania during the Tīmūrid era. Although he did not introduce any new doctrines into Sufism and was himself influenced by Ibn al-ʿArabī’s ideas, his social and political standing contributed to the dissemination of the Naqshbandiyya in Central Asia and elsewhere, and also enabled him to exert a powerful influence over the Tīmūrid sulṭāns.

Kh^wājah Aḥrār was born in a village called Bāghistān…