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Bayazid Bastami

804 - 874

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Bayazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Basṭāmī (Persian: بایزید بسطامی), was a Sufi from north-central Iran. Known to future Sufis as Sultān-ul-Ārifīn ("King of the Gnostics"), Bisṭāmī is considered to be one of the expositors of the state of fanā, the notion of dying in mystical union with Allah. Bastami was famous for "the boldness of his expression of the mystic’s complete absorption into the mysticism." Many "ecstatic utterances" (شطحات shatˤħāt) have been attributed to Bisṭāmī, which lead to him being known as the "drunken" or "ecstatic" (Arabic: سُكْر, sukr) school of Islamic mysticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bayazid Bastami is the 282nd most popular philosopher (down from 222nd in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Iran (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Bayazid Bastami is most famous for the following verse: "I am the Truth, and the Truth is I." Bayazid Bastami was a Sufi mystic who lived in the 11th century. He is most famous for his verse which says that he is the truth and the truth is he.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bayazid Bastami ranks 282 out of 1,267. Before him are Aśvaghoṣa, Andronicus of Rhodes, Ammonius Saccas, Priscus, Sri Aurobindo, and Abraham ibn Ezra. After him are Ramana Maharshi, Bruno Latour, Epimenides, Hans Jonas, Thomas Carlyle, and Speusippus.

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Among people born in 804, Bayazid Bastami ranks 1. After him are Ermengarde of Tours, and Fujiwara no Yoshifusa. Among people deceased in 874, Bayazid Bastami ranks 2. Before him is Hasan al-Askari. After him are Antipope John VIII, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Girart de Roussillon, Salomon, King of Brittany, Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, Unruoch III of Friuli, and Yahya ibn Yahya.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bayazid Bastami ranks 79 out of 631. Before him are Psamtik III (-590), Osroes I (50), Babak Khorramdin (798), The Iron Sheik (1942), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), and Sogdianus of Persia (-500). After him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380), Mohammad Khatami (1943), Al-Hadi (764), Miskawayh (932), Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (873), and Magtymguly Pyragy (1733).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Bayazid Bastami ranks 5. Before him are Al-Ghazali (1058), Al-Tabari (839), Bodhidharma (483), and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149). After him are Miskawayh (932), Mazdak (450), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145).

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