Ala ud-Daula Simnani


Ala ud-Daula Simnani was a Persian Sūfī of the Kubrāwī order, a writer and a teacher of Sufism. He was born in Semnan, Iran. He studied the tradition of Sufism from Abud al- Rahman Asfariyeni. He also wrote many books on Sufism and Islam. Among his students were Ashraf Jahangir Semnani and Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani.