Sheikh Sa’ded-din Mahmood Bin Abdul Karim Bin Yahyaa Shabestari one of the greatest Orafa of Sufism and renown follower of Ibn Arabi amongst some of the Sufi luminaries who produced both intellectual and educational works. He is the second to Molawi in poetry and second to Ibn Arabi in prose. 
 
He was born in 680 (HQ) or 1200 CE in Shabestar a suburb few miles from the city of Tabriz in Iran. He lived for 53 years and was buried, in Shabestar, next to his teacher Sheikh Bahaa od-din Yaqob Tabrizi. 

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