'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani

{{Short description|Persian Sufi}}

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{{'}}Ala' al-Dawla Simnani ({{langx|fa|علاءالدوله سمنانی}}; November 1261 – 6 March 1336) was a Persian Sūfī of the Kubrāwī order,{{cite book|author=J. C. Heesterman|title=India and Indonesia: General Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCZuAAAAMAAJ&q=Alaud-Daula+Simnani|year=1989|publisher=E. J. Brill|isbn=978-90-04-08365-3}} a writer and a teacher of Sufism. He was born in Semnan, Iran. He studied the tradition of Sufism from Nur al-Din Isfarayini.{{cite book|author=Ehsan Yarshater|title=Encyclopaedia Iranica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBAZAQAAIAAJ&q=Abd+al-+Rahman+Esfarayeni|date=September 1996|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=978-1-56859-028-8}} He also wrote many books on Sufism and Islam. Among his students were Ashraf Jahangir Semnani‘'MUQADDEMA-E- LATĀIF-E-ASHRAFI' Book in PERSIAN, Published by Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India and Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani.

There was disagreement in those days among ulema and Sufis about various cultural issues, most notably the distinction of Persianate Ajami Islam that was more widespread than

the more puritanical Arabized forms. Some proponents of Arabized Islam were furious at Sufi elements that blended elements of Hinduism and deviated from the most strict interpretations of Shari'a. Simnani was a central figure in these debates as the intellectual wellspring of Central Asian mysticism, contrasted with the views of Ibn Arabi, who decried the Sufi philosophies.{{cite book |last1=Jalal |first1=Ayesha |title=Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia |date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674039070 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7VVWhi9jGIC&dq=Ala+ud-Daula+Simnani&pg=PA37}}