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Dhul-Nun al-Misri (; born in 796
796

Events...
 in Akhmim
Akhmim

Akhmim is a city in the Upper Egyptian Sohag Governorate. The Greek names of the city were Khemmis, Chemmis and Panopolis. It is located the east bank of the Nile, 4 miles to the northeast of Sohag....
, Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt

File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svgUpper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the Cataracts of the Nile section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut is sometimes known as Middle Egypt....
 - 859
859

Events...
) was an Egyptian
Egyptians

Egyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the Easte...
 Sufi saint. He was considered the Patron Saint of the Physicians in the early Islamic era of Egypt, and is credited with having introduced the concept of Gnosis
Gnosis

Gnosis is the spiritual knowledge of a saint or mysticism human being. In the cultures of the term gnosis was a special knowledge or insight into the infinite, divine and uncreated in all and above all, rather than knowledge strictly into the finite, natural or material world which is called Epistemological knowledge....
 into Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
. Full name is; Dhul-Nun Abu Faid Thawban ibn Ibrahim ???????? ????? ?? ???????.

Dhul-Nun, literately "Of the Nun", is a name that is also given to Jonah
Jonah

According to the Hebrew Bible and Arab Qur'an, Jonah was a prophet who was swallowed by a great fish....
 in Islamic folklore, as "nun" in ancient Arabic meant "big fish"/"whale", as it did in Aramaic where it also means "snake" (see also Nun (Bible)
Nun (Bible)

Nun, in the Hebrew Bible, was a man from the Tribe of Ephraim, grandson of Ammihud, son of Elishama, and father of Joshua. He grew up in and may have lived his entire life in the Israelites' Exodus, where the Egyptians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field." In Aramaic la...
 and Nun (letter)
Nun (letter)

Nun is the fourteenth letter of many Semitic language abjads, including Phoenician language, Aramaic language, Hebrew language and Arabic alphabet ....
).

His nickname al-Misri means 'the Egyptian', a name apparently given to him by his fellows who were not themselves of Coptic decent as he was, or during his travels outside of Egypt.

-Nun al-Misri is considered among the most prominent saints of early Sufism
Sufism

Sufi is generally understood to be the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ufi , though some adherents of the tradition reserve this term only for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition....
 and holds a position in the Sufi chronicles as high as Junayd (d.910) and Bayazid
Bayazid Bastami

Bayazid Bastami , also known as Abu Yazid Bistami or Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bustami, was a Persians Sufi born in Bistam, Iran....
 (d.874).






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Dhul-Nun al-Misri (; born in 796
796

Events...
 in Akhmim
Akhmim

Akhmim is a city in the Upper Egyptian Sohag Governorate. The Greek names of the city were Khemmis, Chemmis and Panopolis. It is located the east bank of the Nile, 4 miles to the northeast of Sohag....
, Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt

File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svgUpper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the Cataracts of the Nile section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut is sometimes known as Middle Egypt....
 - 859
859

Events...
) was an Egyptian
Egyptians

Egyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the Easte...
 Sufi saint. He was considered the Patron Saint of the Physicians in the early Islamic era of Egypt, and is credited with having introduced the concept of Gnosis
Gnosis

Gnosis is the spiritual knowledge of a saint or mysticism human being. In the cultures of the term gnosis was a special knowledge or insight into the infinite, divine and uncreated in all and above all, rather than knowledge strictly into the finite, natural or material world which is called Epistemological knowledge....
 into Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
. Full name is; Dhul-Nun Abu Faid Thawban ibn Ibrahim ???????? ????? ?? ???????.

Dhul-Nun, literately "Of the Nun", is a name that is also given to Jonah
Jonah

According to the Hebrew Bible and Arab Qur'an, Jonah was a prophet who was swallowed by a great fish....
 in Islamic folklore, as "nun" in ancient Arabic meant "big fish"/"whale", as it did in Aramaic where it also means "snake" (see also Nun (Bible)
Nun (Bible)

Nun, in the Hebrew Bible, was a man from the Tribe of Ephraim, grandson of Ammihud, son of Elishama, and father of Joshua. He grew up in and may have lived his entire life in the Israelites' Exodus, where the Egyptians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field." In Aramaic la...
 and Nun (letter)
Nun (letter)

Nun is the fourteenth letter of many Semitic language abjads, including Phoenician language, Aramaic language, Hebrew language and Arabic alphabet ....
).

His nickname al-Misri means 'the Egyptian', a name apparently given to him by his fellows who were not themselves of Coptic decent as he was, or during his travels outside of Egypt.

Life

Dhul-Nun al-Misri is considered among the most prominent saints of early Sufism
Sufism

Sufi is generally understood to be the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ufi , though some adherents of the tradition reserve this term only for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition....
 and holds a position in the Sufi chronicles as high as Junayd (d.910) and Bayazid
Bayazid Bastami

Bayazid Bastami , also known as Abu Yazid Bistami or Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bustami, was a Persians Sufi born in Bistam, Iran....
 (d.874). He studied under various teachers and travelled extensively in Arabia and Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
. In 829
829

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 he was arrested on a charge of heresy and sent to prison in Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
, but after examination he was released on the caliph
Caliph

The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah....
's orders to return to Cairo
Cairo

Cairo , which means "the triumphant", is the Cairo and largest city of Egypt.It is the most populous metropolitan area in Egypt and is also one of the most populous in the world....
, where he died in 859; his tombstone has been preserved.

A legendary alchemist and thaumaturage, he is supposed to have known the secret of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs was a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements....
. His sayings and poems, which are extremely dense and rich in mystical imagery, emphasize knowledge or gnosis
Gnosis

Gnosis is the spiritual knowledge of a saint or mysticism human being. In the cultures of the term gnosis was a special knowledge or insight into the infinite, divine and uncreated in all and above all, rather than knowledge strictly into the finite, natural or material world which is called Epistemological knowledge....
 (marifah) more than fear (makhafah) or love (mahabbah), the other two major paths of spiritual realization in Sufism. None of his written works have survived, but a vast collection of poems, sayings, and aphorisms attributed to him continues to live on in oral tradition.