Bākharzī, Abū al-Mafākhir Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad (d. 736/1336), was a Ku-brawī shaykh and grandson of Shaykh Abū al-Maʿālī Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī (q.v.). Yaḥyā seems to have been born in Kirmān, and his first teacher and Sufi master was his father Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn Aḥmad, who initiated him into the order (Bākharzī, 1/fol. 64b).

Upon the death of his father in 696/1297, Yaḥyā travelled extensively throughout Iran, Syria and Egypt, studying under many Sufi masters, traditionists and Qurʾān commentators such as Fakhr al-Dīn M…