Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd

…al-Makkī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd, were highly respected among the masters of Ṣūfism. Studying first under Sahl at-Tustarī, who lived a quiet and solitary life in the city of Tustar in Khuzistan, al-Ḥallāj later became a disciple of al-Markkī of Basra. During this period he married the daughter of…

… (died 874) and Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd (died 910) had begun to pursue the experience of unity with God, first by being “drunk” with his love and with love of him and then by acquiring life-transforming self-possession and control. Masters (called sheikhs or pīrs) were beginning to attract disciples (murīds) to…