, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-S̲h̲īrāzī , also called al-S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ al-Kabīr or al-S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ al-S̲h̲īrāzī. famous mystic of S̲h̲īrāz. Died 371/982 in his native town, it is said at a very great age (Yāḳūṭ, s.v. S̲h̲īrāz). His works (26 titles preserved in the S̲h̲add al-Izār , 42-3) are lost, with the exception of some sentences transmitted mainly by al-Sulamī, Abū Nuʿaym and al-Kus̲h̲ayrī, from a biography written by his disciple, the Ḥallād̲j̲ī “philosopher” Abu ’l-Ḥasan al-Daylamī and later re-written and translated into Persian by Ibn D̲j̲unayd, the author of the S̲h̲add al-Izār …