Medieval Persian Mystical Figures
- Rumi
- Hafiz
- Farid al-Din Attar
- Saadi
- Baba Taher
- Najmeddin Kubra
- Shams Tabrizi
- Bayazid Bastami
- Abul-Hassan Kharaqani
- Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
- Mansur Al-Hallaj
- Omar Khayyám(philosophic Mysticism)
- Allama Iqbal
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