AN OVERSHADOWED AKBARĪ SUFI IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ANATOLIA: SHAMS AL-DĪN MUḤAMMAD ALTUSTARĪ AND HIS INTELLECTUAL LEGACY.
This study addresses a long-standing case of identity confusion in Islamic intellectual history between two contemporaneous 8th/14thcentury scholars known as al-Tustarī: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Tustarī and Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Tustarī (d. 732/1332). While Badr al-Dīn al-Tustarī, a prominent theo...
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