Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ar, عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى ') was an
Egyptian
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Shafi'i
The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...
scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of
Sufism, eponymously known as '. 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).
[' ed. Cairo, 1302 ]885
Year 885 ( DCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* Summer – Emperor Charles the Fat summons a meeting of officials at Lobith (moder ...
1316 899
ed. Aḥmad Farīd al-Mazīdī, Beirut (1998).
MS A 45 in the
US National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, MD.
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 Rukhṣa (Arabic رخصة, concession, alleviation, facilitation, permission, plural rukhaṣ رخص) is a technical term in the discipline of uṣūl al-fiqh in Islamic law that is mostly applied on ibadah. It is a special dis ...
).
[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.]
Works
* ''Al-Ajwiba-t al-Marḍiyya ''
* ''Al-Kibrīt al-Aḥmar ''
* ''Al-Mīzan al-Kubra '' (The Supreme Scale)
rabic ed. Cairo: al-Maṭābi` al-Amīriyya, 1900. 2 vols.* ''Al-Tabaqat al-Kubra '' (The supreme levels)
* ''Lata'if al-minan wa al-akhlaq '' (Subtleties of gifts and character)
* ''Lawaqih al-anwar al-qudsiyya '' (The fecundating sacred illuminations)
* ''Kitab al-yawaqit wa al-jawahir fī bayan 'aqa'id al-akabir '' (The book of rubies and jewels: an explanation of the tenets of faith of mystic luminaries).
* ''Al-Jawahir wa al-Durar '' (The jewels and pearls)
* ''Durar al-Ghawas li sayyidi Ali al-Khawas ''
* ''Al-Kawkab al-shahiq fī al-farq bayn al-Mureed al-sadiq wa Ghayri sadiq ''
* ''Mawazin al-qaswirin min shuyukhin wa muridin ''
* ''al-Fulk al-mashḥūn fī bayān anna l-taṣawwuf huwa mā takhluqu bihi al-'ulamā' al-'āmilūn ''
*'
See also
*
Ibn Arabi
Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , ' Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influen ...
* List of Sufis
* List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
* List of Muslim theologians
References
* 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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1492 births
1565 deaths
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