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. Kubra was born in 540/1145 and died in 618/1221. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Najm al-Din Kubra is the 1,290th most popular religious figure (down from 987th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Turkmenistan (down from 13th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Turkmen Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 1,290 out of 3,187. Before him are Jozef De Kesel, Julia Pastrana, Eugenia of Rome, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Ahmad al-Badawi, and Tola. After him are Eusebius of Vercelli, Ercole Consalvi, Stachys the Apostle, Saint Fiacre, Maurice de Sully, and Merytre-Hatshepsut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1145, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 9. Before him are Ibn Jubayr, Sverre of Norway, Margaret I, Countess of Flanders, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Maria of Antioch, and Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem. After him are Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, Mikhail of Vladimir, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Ruben III, Prince of Armenia, Sven Aggesen, and Christina Hvide. 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 19 out of 50. Before him are Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736), Jaʻfar ibn Yahya (767), Sufyan al-Thawri (716), Mithridates II of Parthia (-150), Al-Shahrastani (1086), and Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (770). After him are Safdar Jang (1708), Andronikos I of Trebizond (1101), Serdar Berdimuhamedow (1981), Yahya ibn Khalid (701), Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī (1010), and Dmitri Shepilov (1905).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Turkmenistan

Among religious figures born in Turkmenistan, Najm al-Din Kubra ranks 4. Before him are Al-Nasa'i (829), Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736), and Sufyan al-Thawri (716).

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