A Study on the Conditions and Works of an Anonymous Hurufi Treatise

One of the main sources in the research done by Iranian and Turkish orientalists and scholars about the Hurufiya Sect and the thoughts of the head of this Sect, Mirza Fazlullah Estarabadi, is a treatise called "Khabnameh". Its author is Nasrullah Ibn Hassan Nafji, Fazlullah’s disciple and comrade during his stay in Isfahan. Also, another doctrinal text of the Hurufiya Sect is a text called "Makhzan al-Romuz" written by the same author in825  AH. These two texts are important sources for understanding the thoughts and teachings of the Hurufiya Sect. To this day, no information is available about this author and wherever his name has been mentioned, he has been known by his "Khabnameh". In this research, the manuscripts of these two important texts were introduced. Their copies are kept in libraries outside Iran: "Khabnameh" in Vatican Library and "Makhzan al-Romuz" in Rumi Library and Museum in Konya. In this study, in addition to introducing the two mentioned texts, we dealt with Nasrullah Ibn Hassan Nafji and his birthplace, while his name was found not to be mentioned in historical sources. In fact, we considered the various information that this reporter had provided in the field of geographical and social issues.