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Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi (d 1411) an Arab Shi'ite theologian and mystic.1Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla , and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan to escape accusations of heresy .2 Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions. His main work is the Mashariq al-anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin ( The Orients of the Lights of Certainty concerning the Arcana of the Commander of the Faithful ), a work of High Imamology commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to Ali - viz . the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs ( khutba tantanjiyya ) and the Sermon of the Elucidation ( khutbatu'l-bayan ) - from the metaphysical perspective of the school of Ibn Arabi .3
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi (d 1411) an Arab Shia theologian and mystic. Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla , and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan to escape accusations of heresy . Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions. His main work is the Mashariq al-anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin ( The Orients of the Lights of Certainty concerning the Arcana of the Commander of the Faithful ), a work of High Imamology commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to Ali - viz . the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs ( khutba tantanjiyya ) and the Sermon of the Elucidation ( khutbatu'l-bayan ) - from the metaphysical perspective of the school of Ibn Arabi .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi (d 1411) an Arab Shia theologian and mystic. Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla , and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan to escape accusations of heresy . Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions. His main work is the Mashariq al-anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin ( The Orients of the Lights of Certainty concerning the Arcana of the Commander of the Faithful ), a work of High Imamology commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to Ali - viz . the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs ( khutba tantanjiyya ) and the Sermon of the Elucidation ( khutbatu'l-bayan ).
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Iraqi Shia theologian (d.1411) Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi (d 1411) an Arab Shia theologian and mystic. Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla , and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan to escape accusations of heresy . Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions. His main work is the Mashariq al-anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin ( The Orients of the Lights of Certainty concerning the Arcana of the Commander of the Faithful ), a work of High Imamology commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to Ali - viz . the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs ( khutba tantanjiyya ) and the Sermon of the Elucidation ( khutbatu'l-bayan ).
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Iraqi Shia theologian (d.1411) al-Hafiż Raḍī al-Dīn Rajab b.Rajab al-Ḥillī al-Borsi ( Arabic :الحافظ رضي الدين رجب بن محمد بن رجب البرسي الحلي; c. 1333-1411) was an 'Iraqi Shia theologian, mystic , hadith narrator, writer, and poet .Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla , in the village of Bors , and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan , to escape accusations of heresy , later in his life. Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions. "193 ــ رجب البرسي: (733 ــ 813 هـ / 1333 ــ 1411 م)" . العتبة الحسينية المقدسة (in Arabic) .
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