Al-Sha'rani

AD 1565 / AH 973, full name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad aš-Šaʿrānī عبد الوهاب ابن احمد الشعرانى ) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism known as Šaʿrawiyyah . Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed a an epitome of a 13th-century treatise on medical substances, Muẖtaṣar taḏkirat as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb The Šaʿrawiyyah order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century. Muẖtaṣar taḏkirat as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb / lil Imām aš-Šhaʿrānī ; wa bihāmišihā taḏkirat aš-Šayẖ Aḥmad al-Qalyūbī fī l-ṭibb , Cairo, 1302 [1885]/1316 [1899]; MS A 45 in the US National Library of Medicine , Bethesda, MD.

ʿAbdul Wahhab Shaʿrani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad aš-Šaʿrānī عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى ) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism , eponynously known as Šaʿrāwiyyah . The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century. Sharani's master was the prominent Shaykh Ali al-Khawas . Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a treatise by as-Suwaydī (1204–1292; AH 604–690). His seminal work Al-Mizan al-Kubra (The supreme scale) compares the rulings of all four Sunni schools of sharia as if they were a single school. He considered the differences, according to their difficulty, as either strictness ('azima) or dispensation (rukhsa). The Ottoman World edited by Christine Woodhead Muẖtaṣar taḏkira-t as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb / lil Imām aš-Šaʿrānī ; wa bi-hāmiš-i-hā taḏkira-t aš-Šayẖ ʾAḥmad al-Qalyūbī fī l-ṭibb ed.

Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ash-Shaʿrānī ) was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism , eponymously known as Šaʿrāwiyyah . The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century. Sharani's master was the prominent Shaykh Ali al-Khawas . Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a treatise by as-Suwaydī (1204–1292; AH 604–690). His seminal work Al-Mizan al-Kubra (The Supreme Scale) compares the rulings of all four Sunni schools of sharia as if they were a single school. He considered the differences, according to their difficulty, as either strictness ('azima) or dispensation ( rukhsa ). Muẖtaṣar taḏkira-t as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb / lil Imām aš-Šaʿrānī ; wa bi-hāmiš-i-hā taḏkira-t aš-Šayẖ ʾAḥmad al-Qalyūbī fī l-ṭibb ed.

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1492–1565) Theological works Istihsan al-Khawd fi 'Ilm al-Kalam Mujarrad Maqalat al-Ash'ari Tabyin Kadhib al-Muftari Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya Al-Insaf Al-Irshad Al-Iqtisad Tahafut al-Falasifa Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq Al-Milal wa al-Nihal Asas al-Taqdis Daf' Shubah al-Tashbih Lubab al-Muhassal Al-Murshid al-Mu'een Umm al-Barahin Jawharat al-Tawhid Institutions Abi al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Center Nizamiyya of Baghdad Al-Azhar University Al-Qarawiyyin University Al-Zaytuna Mosque Umayyad Mosque Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Islamic Education Movement International Islamic University Malaysia Events 2016 International Islamic Conference Related groups Classic Maturidis Sufis Modern Al-Ahbash Deobandis Barelvis Islam portal Category v t e Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ash-Shaʿrānī ) was a renowned Egyptian Shafi'i jurist , traditionist , historian , mystic and theologian . He was one of the Islamic revivalists and scholastic saints of the sixteenth century. He is credited for reviving Islam and is one of the most prolific writers of the early Egyptian-Ottoman period. His legal, spiritual, and theological writings are still widely read in the Muslim world today. He is regarded as "one of the last original thinkers in Islam." He was the founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism , eponymously known as Šaʿrāwiyyah . The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century. A Companion to the History of the Middle East . The Cambridge History of Egypt . Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice . Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa .