Imadaddin Nasimi

Imadaddin Nasimi (c. 1369–c. 1419) was an Azerbaijani Turkic poet and the foremost voice of Hurufi mysticism. In Tabriz he became a disciple and successor of Fazlallah Astarabadi, founder of the Hurufi movement. After Astarabadi was executed, Nasimi carried the doctrine through Anatolia, rejected at Bursa and by the Sufi Haji Bayram Veli, before settling in Aleppo.

There his divans won him many followers and the hostility of Sunni ulama; around 1418–19 the Mamluk sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh had him executed as a heretic. His poetry conveyed Hurufi teachings, in which the divine was revealed in the human face.