ʿAlī Kurdī Maqtūl - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Shaykh ʿAlī Kurdī Maqtūl (d. 925/1519) was a Ṣūfī shaykh and ʿālim instrumental in introducing the Naqshbandī order to Qazvīn, in Iran, shortly after the Ṣafavid rise to power, at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century. A scion of a family of sayyid s ( those claiming descent from the Prophet), he was born and educated in ʿAmādiyya, in Kurdistān-whence his nisba s, Kurdī and ʿAmādī-and travelled to Samarqand in Tīmūrid Transoxania, where he spent several years as a disciple of Shaykh ʿUbaydallāh Aḥrār (d. 895/1490)