Nasir Khusraw
1004 – 1088 · aged 84
11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary
- Born
- 1004 · Qabodiyon
- Died
- 1088 · Yamgan
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- 1004BornBorn in Qabodiyon
- 1088DiedDied in Yamgan
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Nasir Khusraw (Persian: ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Iranian Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary (da'i and later Ḥujjah of Imam al-Mustansir Billah) for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.
Despite being one of the most prominent Isma'ili philosophers and theologians of the Fatimids and the writer of many philosophical works intended for only the inner circle of the Isma'ili community, Nasir is best known to the general public as a poet and writer who ardently supported his native Persian tongue as an artistic and scientific language. All of Nasir's philosophical Isma'ili works are in Persian, a rarity in the Isma'ili literature of the Fatimids, which primarily used Arabic.
Nasir was a key figure in the spread of Isma'ilism in Central Asia. He is with great reverence called "Pir" or "Shah Sayyid Nasir" by the Isma'ili community of Badakhshan (split between Afghanistan and Tajikistan) and their branches in northern Pakistan, who all consider him to be their founder.
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