ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī (life and work) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Landolt, Hermann
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Abū l-Maʿālī ʿAbdallāh (or Muḥammad) b. Abī Bakr Muḥammad b. Abī l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Mayānajī (or al-Miyānajī) al-Hamadhānī (490-525/1097-1131) was an influential Ṣūfī and important author of original works on mystical theology and spiritual practice in both Arabic and Persian, famous as a Ṣūfī martyr. 1. Life and work ʿAyn al-Quḍāt was born in Hamadhān into a learned family originally from Miyāna, in Azerbaijan, who had settled in Hamadhān. Both his grandfather Abū