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Also Known As Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn ad-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Aḥsāʾī • Shaykh Aḥmad
Born 1753
Died 1826 (aged 73) • near Medina • Saudi Arabia
Subjects Of Study Shaykhī • mahdī
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
Shīʿite imam
Ḥasan
grandson of Muḥammad
al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī
Muslim leader and martyr
Fāṭimah
daughter of Muḥammad
al-Ḥillī
Muslim theologian
al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī
Muslim leader
Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei
rahbar of Iran
Jan Hus
Jan Hus
Bohemian religious leader
Ebrahim Raisi
Ebrahim Raisi
Iranian cleric, prosecutor, and politician
Muqtada al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr
Iraqi Shīʿite leader
al-Mahdī
Sudanese religious leader
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
William of Ockham
English philosopher
Jansen, engraving by Jean Morin
Cornelius Otto Jansen
Flemish theologian
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Hashemi Rafsanjani
president of Iran
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
French mystic
The Shrine of the Bāb, Haifa, Israel.
the Bāb
Iranian religious leader