Rudbari

Saint Rudbari
Mystic
Born	c. 850-70 C.E.
Died	c. 933-40 C.E. Baghdad (?)
Honored in	Islam
Influences	Muhammad, Junayd Baghdadi

Abu Ali al-Rudbari (Persian: ابو علی رودباری), known also as Rudbari, was a famous early Persian^[1] sufi saint of the 9th century. He claimed descent from the Sassanid king Anushiravan and was a disciple of Junayd Baghdadi.

Rudbari's statements are recounted in many sayings of the Islamic world. One of his most famous sayings is:

No prison confines more closely than the society of those whose outlook is contrary to one's own.^[2]

Notes

^ Murtaza Muṭahharī, "Understanding Islamic sciences: philosophy, theology, mysticism, morality, jurisprudence", ICAS Press, 2002
^ Jāmī, Ghazzālī, Idries Shah, "Four Sufi classics ", Published for the Sufi Trust by the Octagon Press, 1980

Sufism and Tariqah

Ideas	Baqaa Fanaa Haal Haqiqa Ihsan Kashf Lataif Manzil Marifa Muqaam Nafs Noor Sulook Sufi cosmology Sufi metaphysics Sufi philosophy Sufi psychology Yaqeen

Practices	Dhikr Haḍra Muraqaba Qawwali Sama Whirling Anasheed

Sufi orders	Akbarī Alians Ba 'Alawī Bayramī Bektashī Chishtī Galibī Gulshanī Ḥurūfī Idrīsī Jelvetī Jerrahī Khalwatī Kubrāwī Madarī Malāmatī Mawlāwī Mourīdī Naqshbandī Nasuhī Ni'matullāhī Nuqtawī Qadirī Qalāndārī Rifa'ī Safāvī Shadhilī Suhrawardī Sunbulī Tijanī Ussakī Uwaisī Zahedī

Notable Early Sufi Saints and Mystics	Abdul-Qadir Gilanī Abul-Khayr Ahmad Ghazālī Ahmed Yasāvī Al-Ghazālī Al-Hallaj al-Qunawī Amīr Kulal Ardabilī Ata Allah Attar Balım Sultan Bande Nawāz Baqī Billah Bastamī Bhita'ī Bulleh Shah Dehlāvī Farīd ūd-Dīn Gālib Gharīb Nawāz Ghujdawanī Ghulam Farīd Gül Baba Hajji Bayram Hajji Bektash Haddad Hamadānī Hansvī Harabatī Baba Hasan Basri Haydar Hudayī Hujwirī ibn ʿArabī Jamī Jānān Jazoulī Junayd Baġdādī Kākī Kaliyarī Karkhī Kharaqanī Kūbra Misrī Nāimī Najib al-Suhrawardī Naqshband Nasīmī Nurī Ni'matullāh Nizām ūd-Dīn Otman Baba Pir Sultan Rabbānī Rabia Basri Rifa'ī Rukn-e-Alam Rūmī Saadī Sanai Sarı Saltuk Semnanī Shadhilī Shahāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī Shams Tabrizī Shiblī Shirazī Sultan Walad Taj al-Dīn Gilanī Umar al-Suhrawardī Uwais al-Qarni Yunus Emre Zakariya Zarruq

Notable Modern Sufi Saints	Auliya Nagpuri Meher Ali Qadeer Piya Muhammad Maliki Gohar Shahi Tahir ul-Qadri Tahir Allauddin Taqi Usmani Abdal Hakim Murad Nazim Al-Haqqani Hisham Kabbani Nuh Keller Nooruddeen Durkee Abdalqadir as-Sufi Azeemi Zaheen Ghulam Mustafa Reshad Feild Ahmad al-Alawi Ashraf Ali Thanvi Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri Omar Shah Haeri Raza Khan Syed Shujaat Pir Zulfiqar Abdullah Naqshbandi Sufi Barkat Ali Hafiz Qamaruddin Saheb Qibla Fultali Feisal Abdul Rauf

Sufi studies	Aguéli Almqvist Burckhardt Chittick Corbin Ernst Frager Guénon Hixon Lindbom Lings Nasr Schimmel Sells Shah Schuon

Topics in Sufism	Art Fiction History Music Poetry Shrines Texts

Persondata
Name	Abu Ali Al-Rudbari
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Place of death	Baghdad (?)

Rudbari

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