Legacy
While his group of Sufi disciples did not endure very long after his death, Baqli’s writings continue to be of value to the larger Sufi community. He is forever immortalized by his hagiographies and his own texts. The two most important hagiographies written about Ruzbihan Baqli were both written by family members almost a century after his death. These works are titled The Gift to the People of Gnosis, in Memory of the Chief Axis of the World Ruzbihan in 1300 and The Spirit of the Gardens, on the Life of the Master Ruzbihan in 1305. Select groups in the Ottoman regions, Central Asia, India, and Persia still study, preserve, and comment on his texts today.
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