Iranian Muslim mystics

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general. Today, his translated works are enjoyed all over the world.

thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy".

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Persian Sufi poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221)

Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and jurist (1078–1166)

Mansour al-Hallaj () or Mansour Hallaj () ( 26 March 922) (Hijri 309 AH) was a mystic, poet, and teacher of Sufism. He was best known for his saying, "I am the Truth" ("''Ana'l-Ḥaqq''"), which many saw as a claim to divinity, while others interpreted it as an instance of annihilation of the ego, which allowed God to speak through him. Al-Hallaj gained a wide following as a preacher before he became implicated in power struggles of the Abbasid court and was executed after a long period of confinement on religious and political charges. Although most of his Sufi contemporaries disapproved of his

The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)

9th century Persian Sufi mystic

11th-century Sufi scholar and saint

Muslim Saint and founder of Naqshbandi order (1318–1389)

Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, jurist and mystic

Iranian politician

Iranian theologian and writer

Iranian Sufi (963–1033)

Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140)

Iranian philosopher

Iranian Kubrawiya Sufi saint (c.1312–1384)

Iranian Islamic philosopher and theologian

Iraqi Sufi mystic and poet (1779–1827)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Jurisprudent and theologian

Iranian writer and academic

Iranian scholar

Islamic philosopher (1797–1873)

spiritual thinker, musician, writer, philosopher and jurist (1895–1974)

Iranian Sufi saint

Iranian Azerbaijani poet

Persian philosopher (1598-1680)

Iranian Shia Grand Ayatollah (c. 1500–1585)

Sicilian sufi

Scholar, mystic

Persian poet, mystic, and Sufi

Iranian Sufi and poet

Sufi

Indian Sufi saint

Iranian spiritual leader (1927-2019)

Persian saint

Persian Sufi poet

Iranian poet, philosopher and translator

Persian poet and philosopher

Iranian scholar and mystic (1866–1947)

Iranian philosopher and mystic (died 1670)

one of the contemporary Islamic scholars

Iranian-Iraqi Shia faqih (1910-1993)

Iranian mathematician and religious servant

founder of the Karramiyya sect

Iranian poet and mystic

Persian philosopher

Iranian Great Grand Ayatollah that never wore Turban

Iraqi-Iranian faqih and poet (1879–1942)

Iranian religious servant

11th-century Afghan Sufi saint

Iranian ayatollah

French-Iranian jurist and scholar (born 1952)

Safavid era Persian Shiite scholar