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Lot Essay
The Munajat of 'Abdullah Ansari is a mystical work written in verse and considered one of the masterpieces of Persian literature, written in a simple flowery language.
'Abdullah Ansari was born in Herat in 1006. He is said to have written down the hadith at the age of nine. Orphaned, he followed two masters, one a sufi, and the other with whom he studied exegesis. In 1026, Ansari was in Nishapur to study law. He made various attempts at Hajj, going as far as Baghdad, but returned to Iran and Khorasan where he met an illiterate sufi, Abu al-Hasan Qarakani whose ideas on spirituality strongly influenced him. His debates with opponents meant that he was exiled a number of times until 1069 when he received a robe of honour from the Caliph al-Qa'im (d. 1075). Ansari died in 1089 after a long career as teacher and orator (art. 'Abdullah Ansari, in Yarshater, 2001, vol.I, p.188).
'Abdullah Ansari was born in Herat in 1006. He is said to have written down the hadith at the age of nine. Orphaned, he followed two masters, one a sufi, and the other with whom he studied exegesis. In 1026, Ansari was in Nishapur to study law. He made various attempts at Hajj, going as far as Baghdad, but returned to Iran and Khorasan where he met an illiterate sufi, Abu al-Hasan Qarakani whose ideas on spirituality strongly influenced him. His debates with opponents meant that he was exiled a number of times until 1069 when he received a robe of honour from the Caliph al-Qa'im (d. 1075). Ansari died in 1089 after a long career as teacher and orator (art. 'Abdullah Ansari, in Yarshater, 2001, vol.I, p.188).