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Also Known As Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Fāsī
Born 1530? or 1531? • Ksar el-Kebir • Morocco
Died August 14, 1604 • Fès • Morocco
Subjects Of Study Islam • mysticism
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Muslim scholar
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Kabir
Indian mystic and poet
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
al-Jīlī
Islamic mystic
mausoleum of Ahmed Yesevi
Ahmed Yesevi
Turkish author
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
R.C. Zaehner
British historian
Mullā Ṣadrā
Iranian philosopher
al-Shādhilī
Muslim mystic
ʿAbd al-Salām Yāsīn
Moroccan religious leader
Burhanuddin Rabbani
president of Afghanistan
Muhammad Atef
al-Qaeda leader
A. Bartlett Giamatti
American baseball commissioner
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
Bob Jones, Jr.
American clergyman and educator