Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (948 - 1037 CE) was a 10th- and 11th-century PersianCraig A. Lockard. Societies, Networks, and Transitions, Volume I: To 1500: A Global History. — 3. — Cengage Learning, 2014. — P. 230

Sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

mystic. Probably born in

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the List of largest cities of Iran, fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars (Sasanian province), Pars () and Persis. As o ...

(now in Southern Iran). As a young man he met the Arab poet

Al-Mutanabbi Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī ( ar, أبو الطيب أحمد بن الحسين المتنبّي الكندي; – 23 September 965 AD) from Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate, was a famous Abbasid-era Arab poet at th ...

and the well-known Sufi Abū ʿAbdallāh Moḥammad.BĀBĀ KUHI
at Encyclopedia Iranica

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