Bākharzī, Yaḥyā - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Waley, Muhammad Isa
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Abū l-Mafākhir Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad Bākharzī (d. 736/1335-6) was a Ṣūfī shaykh of the Kubrāwiyya order, a ḥadīth scholar, and an author. Yaḥyā Bākharzī was the grandson of Shaykh Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī of Bukhara (d. 659/1261), one of the foremost successors of Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrā of Khwārazm (d. 618/1221), the eponymous founder of the Kubrāwiyya Ṣūfī order. The Kubrawiyya spread far and wide in Iran and Central Asia, despite the catastrophe of the Mongol invasion, thanks to the work of al-