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Muslim / Sufi
9th Century
Iran/Persia
 

 

Sahl al- Tustari

Timeline (818? - 896)

 

Poems by Sahl al- Tustari
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Sahl al-Tustari was born in Tustar (or Shushtar) in southwestern Iran. Even as a child he showed himself to have a powerful spiritual inclination, drawn to prayer and fasting and asceticism and deep remembrance of God (dhikr/zikr).

One of his early teachers was Dhun-Nun al-Misri. Among Tustari's students was the great Sufi mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj.

Tustari is best known for writing one of the first Sufi commentaries on the Qur'an, the Tafsir al-Tustari. Just as many Jewish mystics have asserted about the Torah, and Christian mystics have taught about the Gospels, Tustari upheld the tradition that the Qur'an contains several levels of meaning.

 

Poems by Sahl al- Tustari

  The gnostics' hearts with eyes are blest

Recommended Books

Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology, Translated by Martin Lings

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Related Links:

  Sahl al-Tustari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahl_al-Tustari
A brief biography and introduction to Tustari's teachings.
  Altafsir.com - Tafsir al-Tustari
http://www.altafsir.com/Al-Tustari.asp
Online database of Tustari's commentary on the Qur'an.
  Al-Tustari
http://www.livingislam.org/tust_e.html
Several sayings and traditions associated with Tustari.
 


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