Sari al-Saqati
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Sari ibn al-Mughallis al-Saqati
Zarih of Junayd of Baghdad and the smaller wooden zarih of his master Sari al-Saqati
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Junayd of Baghdad
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Junayd of Baghdad was a mystic and one of the most famous of the early Islamic saints. He is a central figure in the spiritual lineage of many Sufi orders.
Sari al-Saqati
…the first to present Sufism (tasawwuf) in a systematic way. He was also a friend of Bishr al-Hafi. He was the maternal uncle and spiritual master of Junayd of Baghdad. He was born in 155 AH (772 CE) in the Karkh district of Baghdad. He made a living by continuing his father's scrap business (saqati). In the first…
Junayd of Baghdad invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from "Breaths of intimacy" (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jami (d. 1492). Persian-language manuscript created in Ottoman-held Baghdad, dated 1595