At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Poet
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesLiterature
Overview
Baha' al-Din al-'Amili, known as al-Bahai, was Muhammad b. Husayn, born in 953/1547 and dead in 1030/1621, an author of works in Arabic and Persian on many subjects. 1
Career
He came from Jabal 'Amila in Syria, migrated to Persia and obtained an honoured place at the court of Shah 'Abbas. 1
Works
His best-known work is the anthology al-Kashkul ("the beggar's bowl"), often printed in the East. He also wrote an exposition of Shi'i fiqh in Persian, the Jami'-i 'Abbasi, and works on astronomy and mathematics. As a Persian poet he is known for the mathnawi Nan u-halwa, which Ethe considered a kind of introduction to the Mathnawi of Jalal al-Din Rumi, and a second mathnawi, Shir u-shakar. 1
People and things also explored
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Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 458
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (al-Bahai, 953–1030/1547–1621)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/baha-al-din-al-amili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.