Al-Sha'rani

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'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani
عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى
Personal
Born1493
Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
Died5 December 1565(1565-12-05) (aged 71–72)
Cairo, Egypt Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
ReligionIslam
EraMedieval philosophy
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAshari[1]
Main interest(s)History
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name Arabic: عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى‎ 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.[3]

Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a treatise by as-Suwaydī (1204–1292; AH 604–690).[4]

His seminal work Al-Mīzan 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).[5]

Works[]

  • Al-Ajwiba-t al-Marḍiyya الأجوبة المرضية
  • Al-Kibrīt al-Ahmer الكبريت الأحمر
  • Al-Mīzan al-Kubra الميزان الكبرى (The Supreme Scale) [Arabic ed. Cairo: al-Maṭābi` al-Amīriyya, 1900. 2 vols.]
  • 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 al-anwar al-qudsiyya لواقح الأنوار القدسية (The fecundating sacred illuminations)
  • Kitab al-yawaqit wa al-jawahir fī 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-Jawahir wa al-Durar الجواهر والدرر (The jewels and pearls)
  • Durar al-Ghawas li sayyidi Ali al-Khawas درر الغواص لسيدي علي الخواص
  • Al-Kawkab al-shahiq fī al-farq bayn al-Mureed al-sadiq wa Ghayri sadiq الكوكب الشاهق في الفرق بين المريد الصادق وغير الصادق
  • Mawazin al-qaswirin min shuyukhin wa muridin موازين القاصرين من شيوخ ومريدين
  • Muẖtaṣar taḏkira-t as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb[4]
  • Kashf al-Ghumma `an Jamī` al-Umma [Arabic ed. Cairo: Al-Maṭba`a al-Maymaniyya, n.d.]

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References[]

  1. ^ Spevack, Aaron (2014). The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri. State University of New York Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4384-5370-5.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Spevack, Aaron (2014). The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri. State University of New York Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4384-5370-5.
  3. ^ Woodhead, Christine, ed. (15 December 2011). The Ottoman World. Routledge. ISBN 9781136498947 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b 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. Cairo, 1302 [1885]/1316 [1899]; ed. Aḥmad Farīd al-Mazīdī, Beirut (1998). MS A 45 in the US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
  5. ^ This issue is partially discussed by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim, "Al-Sha`rani's Response to Legal Purism: A Theory of Legal Pluralism", in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 20 (2013, pp. 110-140.
  • 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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