User:HistoryofIran/Nasir Khusraw
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Nasir Khusraw (Persian: ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1078) was a Persian poet, Isma'ili philosopher, traveler, and missionary (da'i) for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.
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Nasir Khusraw | |
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Title | Proof (ḥujja) of Khurasan |
Personal | |
Born | 1004 |
Died | 1072–1078 |
Religion | Isma'ili Shi'a Islam |
Notable work(s) | Safarnama Diwan |
Senior posting | |
Teacher | Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi |
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Born in Qubadiyan to a family of government bureaucrats and landowners, Nasir first served as a official under the Ghaznavids and after 1040 under the Seljuks. Around the age of 41, Nasir underwent a tremendous and sudden change in his spirituality, which drastically altered the direction of his life. He subsequently resigned from his office and converted to Isma'ilism. In March 1046, he went on a nearly seven year journey, with the ultimate goal of performing a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Despite being one of the most prominent Isma'ili philosophers and theologians of the Fatimids and the writer of many philosophical works intended for only the inner circle of the Isma'ili community, Nasir is best known to the general public as a poet and writer who ardently supported Persian as an artistic and scientific language. All of Nasir's philosophical Isma'ili works are in Persian, a rarity in the Isma'ili literature of the Fatimids, which primarily used Arabic.
Nasir was a key figure in the spread of Isma'ilism in Central Asia. He is with great reverence called "Pir" or "Shah Sayyid Nasir" by the Isma'ili community of Badakhshan (split between Afghanistan and Tajikistan) and their branches in northern Pakistan, who all consider him to be their founder.