Amīr Ḥusaynī, Rukn al-Dīn Ḥusayn b. ʿĀlim b. Abī al-Ḥasan Ḥusaynī Ghūrī Harawī (d. before mid 8th/14th century), was a shaykh of the Suhrawardiyya order and a leading poet of Herat. His pen name (takhalluṣ) was Ḥusaynī. He is also referred to as Amīr Ḥusaynī Sādāt and Amīr Sayyid Ḥusaynī (Aṣīl al-Dīn, 43; Dawlatshāh, 167).
The precise year of his birth is not known, but from certain indications in his Nuzhat al-arwāḥ (fols. 112a–b) he appears to have been over forty years of age at the time of its composition in 711/1311, thus puttin…