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INTRODUCTION. THE Gulshan i Raz was composed in A.H. 717 (A.D. 1317), in answer to fifteen questions on the doctrines of the Sufis, or Muhammadan Mystic c, propounded by Amir Syad Hosaini,‘ a celebrated Sufi doctor of Herat. The author’s name was Sa’dud din Mahmud Shabistari, so called from his birth-place, Shabistarfi a village near Tabriz, in the province of Azarbaijan.The only particulars of his life recorded in these Tazkiras are, that he was devotedly attached to one of his disciples named Shaikh Ibrahim, and that in addition to the Gulshan e Raz he wrote treatises entitled Hakk ul Yakin and Risala i Shahid.