Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari is known by his mystical poem "Golshan Raz". His name is "Sheikh Saaduddin Mahmoud bin Amin al-Din Abdul Karim bin Yahya Shabestari". He was born in Tabriz in modern-day East Azerbaijan in 687 AH during the Mongol rule over Iran.
He studied in Tabriz and traveled from Damascus and Egypt to Hejaz, where he met the elders of the lands and began to study. He himself describes this period as:
For a while I spent / spent my life on knowledge of monotheism
On trips to Egypt, dinner and Hejaz / I got one day and night friends
I was visiting Chu Duhr in May and May / I was exploring the city
Sometimes I used to light the fog / Sometimes I used to light the fog
The scholars and elders of this I / I have seen enough in every area of ​​me
I gathered a very strange word / I got some strange artifacts
He got married on a trip to Kerman. One of his children, Abdullah, was a scientist and benefactor of the arts, and he met with Sultan Salim the Ottomans and left no trace of him.
 Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari died in Shabestar in 720 when he was just 33 years old, and his body was buried there.
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