RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Najm al-Din Kubra

1145 - 1221

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Najm ad-Din Kubra (Persian: نجم‌الدین کبری) was a 13th-century Khwarezmian Sufi from Khwarezm and the founder of the Kubrawiya, influential in the Ilkhanate and Timurid dynasty. His method, exemplary of a "golden age" of Sufi metaphysics, was related to the Illuminationism of Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi as well as to Rumi's Shams Tabrizi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Najm al-Din Kubra has received more than 51,049 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Najm al-Din Kubra is the 987th most popular religious figure, the 13th most popular biography from Turkmenistan and the 3rd most popular Turkmen Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 987 out of 3,187. Before him are Henry of Latvia, Elon, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, Ermengarde of Tours, Peter Faber, and Nicholas Mystikos. After him are Humbert of Silva Candida, Abdullah ibn Ja'far, 11th Dalai Lama, Mary Ann Nichols, Raymond Nonnatus, and Fulgentius of Ruspe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1145, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 7. Before him are Attar of Nishapur, Al-Adil I, Ibn Jubayr, Sverre of Norway, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, and Maria of Antioch. After him are Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, Mikhail of Vladimir, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Margaret I, Countess of Flanders, Sven Aggesen, and Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem. Among people deceased in 1221, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 5. Before him are Saint Dominic, Theodore I Laskaris, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, and Berengaria of Portugal. After him are Theodoric I, Margrave of Meissen, Henry III, Duke of Limburg, Alix, Duchess of Brittany, Raymond-Roupen, and Abraham of Smolensk.

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In Turkmenistan

Among people born in Turkmenistan, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 13 out of 50. Before him are Al-Zamakhshari (1075), Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603), Ibn Khordadbeh (820), Chaghri Beg (989), Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736), and Al-Muqanna (800). After him are Sufyan al-Thawri (716), Yelena Bonner (1923), Al-Shahrastani (1086), Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (770), Mithridates II of Parthia (-150), and Andronikos I of Trebizond (1101).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Turkmenistan

Among religious figures born in Turkmenistan, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 3. Before him are Al-Nasa'i (829), and Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736). After him are Sufyan al-Thawri (716).

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