Balyānī, Awḥad al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd b. Muḥammad (d. 683 or 686/1284 or 1287), was a Sufi and scholar from Kāzarūn. His laqab is also given as Aṣīl al-Dīn (Aḥmad Zarkūb, 186), although this may be a confusion with that of his father’s teacher, Shaykh Aṣīl al-Dīn Shīrāzī (see Jāmī, 258–259).

His grandfather Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad, who was a descendant of the well-known Sufi master Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq (q.v., d. ca. 405/1015), migrated to Kāzarūn and married the daughter of one of his disciples, Qāḍī Muḥammad Balyā…