Abū al-Maʿālī Sayf al-Dīn Saʿīd b. al-Muṭahhar b. Saʿīd Bākharzī (al-Bākharzī, fa, باخرزی (1190–1261) shortened as Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī, was a poet, sheikh, and theologian who lived in the 13th century. As suggested by his

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, he was born and raised in

Bakharz Bakharz ( fa, باخرز, also known as Ostā-ye Bākharz ( fa, استای باخرز), Ostād, Ostād Bākharz, Ostay, and Usta) is a city and capital of Bakharz County, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6 ...

, a district of the province of

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in Khorasan, and he got religious education in

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and Nishapur cities. When he achieved unusual successes in mystical teaching, he moved to

Khorezm Khwarazm (; Old Persian: ''Hwârazmiya''; fa, خوارزم, ''Xwârazm'' or ''Xârazm'') or Chorasmia () is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the ...

. There he became one of nearest followers of very popular sheikh – Nadjm ed-Din Kubra. Afterwards, according to the prominent poet Abdurahman Djami Boharsi (15th century), Sheikh Saif ed-Din went to Bukhara as a tutor. In Bukhara he was honored with the title of "Sheikh al-Alam" ("sheikh of peace"). Unlike his teacher, Sayf al-Din Bakharzi safely survived the

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. He lived in Bukhara about 40 years under new rulers. Moreover, he had incontestable authority over ruling elite. For example,

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, who was brother of

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, once had visited sheikh al-Boharsi. Because of this meeting, the powerful Khan of the Kipchak or

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had adopted Islam. The mausoleum dedicated to him and Bayan-Quli Khan was built in the settlement called Fathabad, to the east from medieval Bukhara.Dmitriy Page. Saif ed-Din Bokharzi & Bayan-Quli Khan Mausoleums
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