Abū Saʿīd Sharaf ibn al-Muʾayyad ibn Abī l-Fatḥ al-Baghdādī (1170–1219), best known as Majd al-Din Baghdadi, was an important Sufi shaykh ("master") of the

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school of Sufism. Baghdadi's students included Najm al-Din Razi (died 1256) and Razi al-Din Ali Lala (died 1244). His most significant work was ''Tuḥfat al-barara fī l-masāʾil al-ʿashara'' ("The gift of the pious in ten questions"), written in

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. Baghdadi also wrote several

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works, including ''Risāla fī l-safar'' ("Treatise on piritualtravel"), as well as poems and letters. He was the older brother of Baha al-Din Baghdadi.

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