al-Daylamī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Thiele, Jan
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Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Daylamī (d. 711/1311-2) was a Zaydī and Ṣūfī scholar. He was born in the Caspian region, a historical centre of Zaydism since the establishment of the community's first Imāmate in 250/864. The date of his birth is unknown. He travelled to Yemen-which had, by the sixth/twelfth century, become the cultural centre of Zaydism-and sojourned in Ṣanʿāʾ during the reign of the Imām al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Muḥammad b. Muṭahhar (d. 728/1328). During his residence in Yemen,