Fazlallah Astarabadi (Naimi)

Fazlallāh Astarābādī (Persian فضل الله شهاب الدين بن بهاء الدين ( ابى محمد ) استرآبادى, DMG Fażlallāh Šihāb ad - Dīn ibn Bahā ʾ ad - Dīn (or ibn Abī Muḥammad ) Astarābādī; * 1339/40 in Astarabad, † 1394 in Nakhchivan City ) was the founder of the mystical Hurūfīya movement. He is also known under the name Fazlallāh Hurūfī, Fazlallāh Tabrizi and under his Tachallus Na ʿ imi known that he used for a small collection of poems.

The medieval scientists assume that Fazlallāh has come to the discovery of his teaching around 1386 in Tabriz. He has in Baku established his center of Hurufismus movement.

His most famous works are the Dschawidannama ( " book on eternity " ), kabir as Dschawidan -e ( " Great Eternity" ) announced the Wasiyyatnama ( " Testament" ), the Mahabbatnama ( "Book of love " ), and the Iskandarnama ( " Alexander Book " ). In the teaching of Hurufismus is a variant of Sufism, which, like in the Jewish Kabbalah, seeks through the interpretation of the alphabet and the study of the numerical value of the letters of sacred texts of religious knowledge and salvation.

Fazlallāh spread his teachings so intense and successful that it became very popular not only in Azerbaijan, but in the whole Orient soon. He even tried to make the ruler Timur to his disciple, but was arrested and executed in the castle of Alindscha near Naxçıvan 1394. Here (presumably in small Alindscha - Chanegah Mausoleum ) he was also buried. His students, especially Imad ad-Din Nasimi, but spread his teachings continues to be successful.

The spread of Hurufismus in Anatolia, many elements of this doctrine in the Alevis can be found again. In today's Albania, the teachings Fazlallāhs are still being taught in some Bektashi villages.