Zahed Gilani

Sheikh Zahed Gilani, whose full name Taj Al -Din Ibrahim ibn Rushan Amir Al- Kordi Al- Sanjani (Arabic تاج الدين ابراهيم الكردي السنجاني; * 1216, † 1301 ) was an Islamic mystic and grand master of the Sufi order named after him Zahediyyeh.

Many pilgrims are drawn to Zahed Gilani's grave in the village of Scheichanvar near the city Lāhījān, in the Iranian province of Gilan. Zahed Gilani's ancestors came from the town of Sanjan from the former Greater Khorasan in northeastern Iran, now a part of Uzbekistan. They fled from the Seljuks, who then began to conquer Khorasan. Zahed Gilani's family settled in the late 11th century in Gilan on. Sheikh Zahed succeeded in Iran Ilkhanate ruler Ghazan Khan reigning take for themselves and acquire great religious and cultural influence.

Sheikh Zahed Gilani's most important pupil was Safi Al Din Ardebili, later the namesake of the Safavid dynasty. Safi Al Din married Zahed Gilani's Daughter Bibi Fatemeh and was Zahed Gilani temporarily oldest son as successor Sheikh Zaheds, used this as the Grand Master of the Order Zahediyyeh. Zahed Gilani's second son married a daughter Safi Al Din's from a previous marriage.

In the 17th century a descendant Zahed Gilani wrote called Sheikh Pir Abdul Hussein al - Nasab Zahedi the Silsilat Safawiyya, a hagiography of the Safavid dynasty.

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