Amīr Sayyid ʿAlī b. Shihāb al-Dīn Hamadānī (714-86/1314-85) was a prominent Ṣūfī shaykh of Iran and Central Asia known for his substantial body of writings, for his training of disciples in an initiatory lineage that came to be defined, soon after his era, as "Kubravī," and for his legendary role as an Islamiser of Kashmir, where the title Shāh-i Hamadān and other epithets attest to his reputation. Our chief sources on his life are two early hagiographies produced by figures in his Ṣūfī lineage: the