Najīb al-Dīn ʿAlī Buzghush (d. 678/1279)

A distinguished Sufi and scholar affiliated to the Suhrawardiyya order, he is also mentioned by such titles and epithets as shaykh al-shuyūkh al-muḥaqqiqīn, kahf al-wāṣilīn and imām a⁠ʾimmat al-dahr (Waṣṣāf, 193; Zarkūb Shīrāzī, 177). Originally from Syria, his father Buzghush was a prominent and wealthy merchant who went to live in Shīrāz towards the end of the 6th/12th century and married …