Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi

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Islamic mystic Muslim theologian Persian scholar Sufi philosopher commentator on Ibn Arabi metaphysician

Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi canonical	7
al-Qunawi	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1296310 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Context triple: [Ibn Arabi, influenced, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi]

A. al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
B. Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
C. Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq
Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi master best known as one of the principal spiritual teachers of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
D. Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
E. al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Target entity description: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.

A. al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
B. Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
C. Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq
Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi master best known as one of the principal spiritual teachers of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
D. Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
E. al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic mystic ⓘ Muslim theologian ⓘ Persian scholar ⓘ Sufi philosopher ⓘ commentator on Ibn Arabi ⓘ metaphysician ⓘ
associatedWith	Mevleviyya ⓘ surface form: Konya Sufi circles Seljuk court in Konya ⓘ
birthPlace	Anatolia ⓘ Qunya ⓘ
century	13th century ⓘ
citizenship	Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ⓘ
deathPlace	Konya ⓘ Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ⓘ surface form: Rum Seljuk Sultanate
ethnicGroup	Persians ⓘ
familyName	Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: al-Qunawi
fieldOfWork	Islamic metaphysics ⓘ Sufi gnosis ⓘ philosophical theology ⓘ
givenName	Sadr al-Din ⓘ
influencedBy	Ibn Arabi ⓘ
languageOfWork	Arabic ⓘ Persian ⓘ
mainInterest	epistemology in Sufism ⓘ interpretation of revelation ⓘ mystical experience ⓘ ontology ⓘ
movement	Akbarian school ⓘ school of Ibn Arabi ⓘ
name	Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi self-link ⓘ
notableFor	developing the school of wahdat al-wujud ⓘ systematizing the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi ⓘ
notableWork	Ijaz al-Bayan ⓘ Miftah al-Ghayb ⓘ al-Fukuk ⓘ al-Nusus ⓘ
occupation	Quran commentator ⓘ Sufi master ⓘ philosopher ⓘ teacher ⓘ theologian ⓘ
religion	Islam ⓘ
religiousBranch	Sufism ⓘ
religiousDenomination	Sunni Islam ⓘ
residence	Konya ⓘ
studentOf	Ibn Arabi ⓘ
teacherOf	Fakhr al-Din Iraqi ⓘ Muayyid al-Din Jandi ⓘ Qutb al-Din Shirazi ⓘ Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani ⓘ surface form: Sa'id al-Din Farghani

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ibn Arabi → influenced → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ

Muhyiddin Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi al-Ta’i → influenced → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ

Wahdat al-wujud → associatedWith → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ

Akbarian school → influenced → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ

Akbarian school → hasKeyFigure → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ

Fusus al-Hikam → hasCommentaryBy → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ

Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi → name → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi self-link ⓘ

Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi → familyName → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Qunawi

Qadi Zada al-Rumi → studentOf → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ