Mohammad Taqi Khooyee, an Anonymous Poet and Mystic

Often, the wealth and depth of Persian literature and mysticism overshadows the names of many Iranian mystics and poets, and keeps them unknown and anonymous in every age. Consequently, there is no reliable and considerable information about them except their names, or in a better situation, there are incomplete pieces of biographical information on them, here and there in some texts. Mohammad Taqi Khooyee, the Qajarid mystic and poet, is one of the members of this large group. In Sufism, he was a disciple of Mohammad Jafar Kaboodar Ahangi (known as Majzoob Ali Shah). Some works by M. T. Khooyee survives, the most important of which is the valuable prose work, Adab al-Musaferin ﺁداب المسافرین)). Initiating with the conditions of travel and the requirements of the traveler, Khooyee deals with the history of Sufism from the outset to his day. The part discussing mystics and mysticism of his time contains the best and oldest information on the Qajarid Sufism which has not been published so far. The article introduces Adab al-Musaferin (ﺁداب المسافرین) and casts light over the author’s biography and works. Finally, it concludes with his critically edited autobiography, taken from the end of Adab al-Musaferin (ﺁداب المسافرین).