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Arslān-bāb
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Arslān-bāb was, according to local traditions, the teacher of Khwāja Aḥmad al-Yasawī (d. 562/1166–7), the legendary founder of the Yasawiyya Ṣūfī brotherhood in Central Asia. He is usually claimed to have been an exceptionally long-lived companion of the prophet Muḥammad, under the name of either Salmān al-Fārisī or Muḥammad b. Nisṭūr al-Rūmī; in modern
khwāja genealogies, he appears as a close relative of Aḥmad al-Yasawī himself (
khwājas are the masters of Central Asian kinship groups that are regarded as familial communities distinguished by genealogically-m…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
