Biography:Al-Sha`rani
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Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name Arabic: عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى Script error: The function "transl" does not exist.) was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism, eponymously known as Script error: The function "transl" does not exist.. 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.[1]
Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a treatise by as-Suwaydī (1204–1292; AH 604–690).[2]
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).[citation needed]
Works
- Al-Ajwibath al-Marziyya الأجوبة المرضية
- Al-Kibreet al-Ahmer الكبريت الأحمر
- Al-Mizan al-Kubra الميزان الكبرى
- Al-Tabaqat al-Kubra الطبقات الكبرى (The supreme levels)
- Lata 'if al-minan wa al-akhlaq لطائف المنن والأخلاق (Subtleties of gifts and character)
- Lawaqih ai-an war al-qudsiyya لواقح الأنوار القدسية (The fecundating sacred illuminations)
- Kitab al-yawaqit wa al-jawahir fi bayan 'aqa'id al-akabir كتاب اليواقيت والجواهر في بيان عقائد الأكابر (The book of rubies and jewels: an explanation of the tenets of faith of mystic luminaries).
- Al-Javahir va al-Durar الجواهر والدرر (The jwels and pearls)
- Durar al-Ghawas li sayyidi Ali al-Khawas درر الغواص لسيدي علي الخواص
- Al-Kawkab al-shahiq fi al-farq byn al-Mureed al-sadiq va Ghayri sadiq الكوكب الشاهق في الفرق بين المريد الصادق وغير الصادق
- Mawazin al-qaswirin min shuyukhin wa muridin موازين القاصرين من شيوخ ومريدين
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References
- ↑ Woodhead, Christine, ed (15 December 2011). "The Ottoman World". Routledge. https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=jt_FBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT444&lpg=PT444&dq=ali%20al-khawas%20sharani&source=bl&ots=78NoeagD8t&sig=EBpDolsgeGy4XPKnVktAiGDgadM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_2DVdGyD4nIsQGTqYKYCQ&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sharani&f=false.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Script error: The function "transl" does not exist. ed. Cairo, 1302 [1885]/1316 [1899]; ed. Aḥmad Farīd al-Mazīdī, Beirut (1998). MS A 45 in the US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
- C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL), 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889–1936), vol. 2, pp. 335–8.
- M. Winter, 'Shaʿrānī' in Gibbs et al. (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, 11 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960–2002), vol. 9, p. 316.
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