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Bahāʾ al-Dīn Mattū
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Bahāʾ al-Dīn Mattū (1180–1248/1766–1832), a poet and Sufi from a family of scholars from Kashmīr. His importance primarily lies in his biographies of Sufis and explanations of Sufi doctrine.

Bahāʾ al-Dīn became attracted to Sufism in his youth. He studied religious sciences under Mullā Maḥmūd Balkhī and then chose teaching as his profession (Rāshidī, 1/136).

Works

His extant poetical works include the following five mathnawīs (rhyming couplets), which were written in the style of Niẓāmī’s Khamsa:

1. Rīshī-nāmah or Rishī-nāmah comprising 4,00…

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Marjan Afsharian and Translated by Farzin Negahban, “Bahāʾ al-Dīn Mattū”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 07 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_00000032>
First published online: 2015



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