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When did Sultan Sahak die?

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Scholarship provisionally places the opening of Sultan Sahak's teaching in the fifteenth century CE, but surviving accounts of his life are a composite of historical memory and devotional narrative, and no reading offers a death date.

What would resolve this A documentary source external to the devotional Kalam-e Saranjam tradition naming a death date, or independent corroboration for one of the competing scholarly placements of his era.
OpenYarsani and Kurdish religious history, Iranian studiesPhilip G. Kreyenbroek, The Religious Textual Heritage of the Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq)
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The Religious Textual Heritage of the Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq)
Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Oral Tradition, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 331-340, 2022View the Source
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