Bāyazīd Basṭāmī, Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Surūshān (d. 234/848 or 261/875), a major figure in the early history of Sufism. He was born into a Persian family that had recently embraced Islam, in the Mūbadān quarter of Basṭām (called Bisṭām in Arabic sources, whence the variant nisba Bisṭāmī), a small to…