Niffar (Nippur)

Niffar, on the site of ancient Nippur in central Iraq south of Baghdad, was a town in the marsh country of lower Mesopotamia. The Sufi al-Niffari (d. c. 965), author of the celebrated Kitab al-Mawaqif (Book of Standings), a classic of mystical aphorism, is traditionally associated by his nisba with Niffar, though little of his life is securely known.