al-Daqqāq, Abū ʿAlī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Nguyen, Martin
Leiden
Brill
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Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Aḥmad Abū ʿAlī l-Daqqāq (d. 405/1015) was a Ṣūfī mystic of Nīshāpūr who owes his posthumous fame largely to his renowned disciple and son-in-law Abū l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī (d. 465/1072-3), a major Central Asian religious scholar, Ṣūfī manualist, and hagiographer. Little is known of al-Daqqāq's early life, beyond the facts that he was a native of Nīshāpūr and that his nisba al-Daqqāq (the miller) probably indicates a