Imadaddin Nasimi

Imadaddin Nasimi, whose name was Seyyid Ali, was born around 1369 or 1373, in a disputed place: Shamakhi, Tabriz, Baghdad, Shiraz or Diyarbakır depending on the sources. He bore the title of seyyid, reserved for descendants of the Prophet. A disciple and then successor of Fazlallah Astarabadi, founder of Hurufism, whom the Timurids had executed, he carried this teaching to Anatolia and then to Aleppo, where he had disciples. He wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian and Arabic. Condemned on a fatwa, he was put to death in Aleppo around 1417 or 1418, and lies buried there in a convent that bears his name.

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• PoetryDivanImadaddin Nasimi · 1400not translated into EnglishLiterature