Badr al-Dīn Tabrīzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Yalman, Suzan
Leiden
Brill
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Badr al-Dīn Tabrīzī was the architect of the original tomb built for Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672/1273, in Konya), the great Persian mystic and poet. The only mention of him is in the Manāqib al-ʿārifīn ("The virtues of the gnostics"), the well-known collection of hagiographies by Aflākī (d. 761/1360), where he is described as an architect (miʿmār) and a "wonder of the age and unique in the world for his knowledge of alchemy and forms of learned wisdom" (Aflākī, 1:193; trans. J.