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Amīn al-Dīn Abū l-Qāsim Ḥājjī Bula (or Ḥājj Bula) (d. 720/1320) was a religious writer and an influential Ṣūfī shaykh of Tabriz in the second half of the seventh/thirteenth and early eighth/fourteenth centuries, and probably the master of Maḥmūd Shabistarī (d. c.740/1340), the author of the famous Persian poem entitled Gulshan-i rāz (“The garden of mystery”). Ḥājj/Ḥājjī Bula was probably the nickname of Ḥājj/Ḥājjī Abū l-Qāsim (Ṣādiqī, 279). He is said to have been initiated into the Ṣūfī path by Shaykh Zāhid-i Gīlānī (613–700/1216–1301) in Gīlān…

b. Moḥammad Ṭūsī (1058-1111), one of the greatest systematic Persian thinkers of medieval Islam and a prolific Sunni author on the religious sciences (Islamic law, philosophy, theology, and mysticism) in Saljuq times. Overview of entry: i. Biography, ii. The Eḥyāʾ ʿolum al-dīn, iii. The Kīmīā-ye saʿādat, iv. Minor Persian works, v. As a Faqīh, vi. Ḡazālī and Theology, vii. Ḡazālī and the Bāṭenīs, viii. Impact on Islamic Thought.A version of this article is available in printVolume X, Fascicle 4, pp. 358-377blod:ḠAZĀLĪ, ABŪ ḤĀMED MOḤAMMAD, b. Moḥammad Ṭūsī (450-505/1058-1111), …