Rajab Bursi

Rajab al-Borsi
Calligraphy of Borsi
Title	al-Hafiz
Personal life
Born	1333 Bors, Iraq.
Died	1411 Mashhad, Iran.
Cause of death	Unknown.
Notable idea(s)	Twelver Neoplatonism, Hurufism, High Imamology
Notable work(s)	Mashariq Anwar al-Yaqin, Mashariq al-Amaan, al-Durr al-Thameen, al-Alfayn fi Saadatul Kawnayn
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Sect	Shia Islam
Creed	Twelver
Movement	Hurufism

al-Hafiż Raḍī al-Dīn Rajab b. Muḥammad b. Rajab al-Ḥillī al-Borsi (Arabic:الحافظ رضي الدين رجب بن محمد بن رجب البرسي الحلي; c. 1333-1411)[1] was an 'Iraqi Shia theologian, mystic, hadith narrator, writer, and poet.[2] Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near Hilla, in the village of Bors,[3] and moved to the Iranian province of Khurasan, to escape accusations of heresy, later in his life. Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the Shia persecutions.

Works

His main work is the Mashariq anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin (The Oriental Lights of Certainty concerning the Arcana of the Commander of the Faithful), a treatise of High Imamology, condemned by various literalists within Shiasm, with sermons commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to the first Shi'i Imam, Ali: the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs (khutba tantanjiyya), the Sermon of Pride (Khutbatul Iftikhariya), and the Sermon of Recognition of Gnostic Light (hadith al-nawraniyya). The authenticity of these sermons are debated.

Sources

B. T Lawson "The Light of Certainty in Heritage of Sufism", Oxford, 1999 pp 225–244

References

1. "193 ــ رجب البرسي: (733 ــ 813 هـ / 1333 ــ 1411 م)". العتبة الحسينية المقدسة (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-01-18.
2. al-Khaqani, Ali. Shu'araa al-Hillah vol. 2. p. 368.
3. Ya'qubi, Muhammad Ali. al-Babiliyat vol. 1. p. 118.