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Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya fi 'Ilm al-Tasawwuf ( Arabic : الرسالة القشيرية في علم التصوف , lit. ' The Qushayriyyan Epistle on the Science of Sufism ' ), mostly known as al-Risala al-Qushayriyya (The Treatise of al-Qushayri), is one of the early complete manuals of the science of Sufism (tasawwuf in Arabic), written by the Shafi'i - Ash'ari scholar Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1074). It was written in 438/1045–6 and has been published in several editions and translated in various languages, including English , French , German , Persian , Turkish , and Urdu . It became the most widely disseminated handbook of Sufism in the Islamic world .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
1045–6 treatise on Sufism by al-Qushayri Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya fi 'Ilm al-Tasawwuf ( ), mostly known as al-Risala al-Qushayriyya (The Treatise of al-Qushayri), is one of the early complete manuals of the science of Sufism (tasawwuf in Arabic), written by the Shafi'i - Ash'ari scholar Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1074). It was written in 438/1045–6 and has been published in several editions and translated in various languages, including English , French , German , Persian , Turkish , and Urdu . It became the most widely disseminated handbook of Sufism in the Islamic world .
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one of the early complete manuals of the science of sufism
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eleventh-century
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