Ibn Khafif, born Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Khafif (882 to 982) and known as al-Shaykh al-Kabir or Shaykh al-Shirazi, was a Persian mystic and Sufi from Iran credited with bringing Sufism to Shiraz. He was also a Baghdad-educated Shafiite legal scholar who studied under the theologian al-Ashari in Basra, and in Baghdad was acquainted with the mystics Ruwaym, Hallaj and Shibli. After spending much of his life away from his hometown of Shiraz, he returned there to die.
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