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Baba Kuhi of Shiraz

10th- and 11th-century Persian Sufi mystic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ6417154 ↗
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Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (948 - 1037 CE) was a 10th- and 11th-century Persian Sufi mystic. Probably born in Shiraz (now in Southern Iran). As a young man he met the Arab poet Al-Mutanabbi and the well-known Sufi Abū ʿAbdallāh Moḥammad.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baba Kuhi of Shiraz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.