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Shams al-Din Muhammad Tabadkani

sufi master (died 1486)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2022
Entity authorityQ113005890 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shams al-Din Muhammad Tabadkani (died 1486) was an important Sufi master.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Shams al-Din Muhammad Tabadkani” is sufi master (died 1486). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Shams, al-Din and Muhammad, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1486—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Shams, al-Din and Muhammad is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “sufi master (died 1486)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q113005890. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1486.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shams al-Din Muhammad Tabadkani” 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.