Amīn al-Dīn Abū l-Qāsim Ḥājjī Bula - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Pourjavady, Nasrollah
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Amīn al-Dīn Abū l-Qāsim Ḥājjī Bula (or Ḥājj Bula) (d. 720/1320) was a religious writer and an influential Ṣūfī shaykh of Tabriz in the second half of the seventh/thirteenth and early eighth/fourteenth centuries, and probably the master of Maḥmūd Shabistarī (d. c.740/1340), the author of the famous Persian poem entitled Gulshan-i rāz ("The garden of mystery"). Ḥājj/Ḥājjī Bula was probably the nickname of Ḥājj/Ḥājjī Abū l-Qāsim (Ṣādiqī, 279). He is said to have been initiated into the Ṣūfī path