Abu Ali Roodbari: A Mystic of Chivalry Manner

Abu Ali Roodbari is among the least known mystics from beginning of the fourth century (AH). He is more known with titles such as scholar, jurist, Imam, Imam of Sufi, and Sufi poet in biographical studies. A number of great people such as “Abu Ali Kateb, Abu Yaghoob Nahrjuri, and Khajeh Abdollah Ansari have praised his virtue, morality, knowledge, art of memory, and his prodigious memory in memorizing knowledge. Furthermore, the character, beliefs, and Sufi heredity of Roodbari have been unknown and sometimes the slightest attention has been paid to his mystic views and chivalry manners.
While with the slightest reflection on his life and his mystic manners, a careful and meticulous reader discovers wonderful and new consequences in the realm of correlation between chivalry and Sufism and praises his morality.
In this article, an effort has been made to analyze the beliefs and chivalry manners of Roodbari such as “chivalrous mystic” in two separate parts. And behaviors such as triple pillar of generosity, the importance of modesty in conduct of chivalry, tolerance with Dervish, the importance of gratitude and integrity, ignorance over the slip of friends and enemies, costly banquets and parties, giving and unfailing kindness and forgiveness to the poor are stated.