![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Tomb_of_Abdul_Qadir_Jilani%252C_Baghdad.jpg/640px-Tomb_of_Abdul_Qadir_Jilani%252C_Baghdad.jpg&w=640&q=50)
Hurufism
Iranian Sufi mystic order in Shia Islam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Hurufiyya movement.
Hurufism[1] (Arabic: حُرُوفِيَّة ḥurūfiyyah, Persian: حُروفیان horūfiyān) was a Sufi movement based on the mysticism of letters (ḥurūf),[2] which originated in Astrabad and spread to areas of western Iran (Persia) and Anatolia in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.