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The Light of Muhammad
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Abraham The Friend Of God
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A Dervish Textbook--the 'Awarifu-l-Ma'arif--was written by the nephew of the man who founded the Suhrawardi order of dervishes, but used as a manual by Sufis of all other orders as well. Among the subjects ...
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A History Of The Prophets Of Islam - Vol. 1
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A Song Of Muhammad
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This exquisite song reveals the mystery of the holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal.). It describes the extraordinary birth and life of the Prophet Muhammad (Sal). The book also reveals the mystery of the aspect of the 'Nur Muhammad' which dawned ...
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A Sufi Saint Of The Twentieth Century
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A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700
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Lore Of Light, (3 Vol set)
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Stories from the Lives of the Prophets. Twenty eight of the 124 000 prophets who have appeared on earth since the beginning of time are mentioned by name in the Holy Qur’an. Their lives and deeds have served as a source of inspiration ...
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Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imaginatio
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Self-Disclosure of God Principles of Ibn al-Arabi's Cosmology
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Chittick is refining the art of translating Ibn Arabi. Unlike other classical Arabic texts which are more or less straight-forward -- and hence translatable -- Ibn Arabi is an exception. The elliptical nature of his thought compounded by its deep ...
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The Way Of Abu Madyan
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This is the first English translation of works attributed to Abu Madyan, a seminal figure of Sufism in Muslim Spain and North Africa. The Arabic text accompanying the English translation also represents the first scholarly edition of these ...
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Unlimited Mercifier: the Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn Arabi
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Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi
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Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi is undoubtedly a landmark in Ibn Arabi studies. Until the publication of this book, anyone who wanted to learn about the life of Ibn Arabi has had little choice of material to work from. This ...
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Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-Arabi and the Problem of Religious
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Ibn al'Arabi, known as the "Greatest Master," is the most influential Muslim thinker of the past 600 years. This book is an introduction to his thought concerning the ultimate destiny of human beings, God and the cosmos, and the reasons for ...
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Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts
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Vision of Islam
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This lucid and compelling account of Islam is written from what might be called a phenomenological perspective. Because its principal aim is to present Islam as a living faith from a Muslim perspective as reflected in the classical texts of the ...
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Sufism: A Short Introduction
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The Sufi tradition, commonly associated with the Whirling Dervishes and the profoundly beautiful poetry of the great mystic Rumi, is introduced here in this new guide. William C. Chittick, the leading scholar in this filed, offers a compelling ...
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Meccan Revelations, Vol 1
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Perhaps no mystic in the history of the world has delved as deeply into the inner knowledge that informs our being as did Ibn 'Arabi. He was born into the cultural and religious crucible of Andalusian Spain in 1165, a place and time in which ...
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Meccan Revelations, Vol 2
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Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi
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A unique work, providing the underlying spiritual principles (from the point of view of one of the greatest Sufi masters who ever lived) lacking in most modern books of astrology. It will complement and deepen anyone's personal library or ...
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The Basic Research [al Futuhat al Ilahiyya fi Sharh al Mabaahith al-Asliyya]
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Author: Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Ajiba
To travel the path of courtesy and instruction is before everything and the mightiest means to Allah. The most direct access for the slave of his Lord is to keep company with the Gnostics, those who have high yearning and prophetic instruction ...
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The Beauty of the Righteous & Ranks of the Elite
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Author: Abu Naeem al-Asfahani
Hilyat ul-Awliya wa Tabaqat al-Asfiya From this renowned work of the 10th century Imam al-Hãfiz Abu Na'im al-Asfahãni, God bless his soul, into English, one can draw a concise map of the environment of the sacred City of Light...
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The Removal Of Cares
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Author: Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
Shaykh Abd al-Qadir Jilani lived almost a thousand years ago, but his words transcend the time and place in which they were recorded to span the centuries without difficulty. Revered to this day as the supreme spiritual helper ...
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The Sacred Trusts: Pavilion of the Sacred Relics
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A first time comprehensive album presenting the marvelous collection of the Sacred Relics in Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul ...
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The Secret of Secrets
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Author: Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
An interpretative translation by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak of Sirr al-Asrar by Hadrat Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1077-1166AD), considered by many to be one of the greatest saints of Islam and the eponymous founder of the Qadiriyya order. This ...
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The Sublime Revelation [Al-Fath ar-Rabbani]
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Author: Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
62 Discourses [Majalis] by Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani in the guesthouse [ribat] and the schoolhouse [madrasa] in Bagdad, between the years AH 545 and AH 546. Longer than the discourses of Revelations of the Unseen, these ...
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca
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Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous ...
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Averroes (Ibn Rushd) His Life, Works & Influence
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the life, times, and achievements of Averroes, a twelfth-century Muslim philosopher whose ideas were so controversial that his books were burnt not once, but twice. A fascinating introduction ...
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Biography & Mission Of Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab
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Companions Of The Prophet 2 (Revised)
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Companions Of The Prophet 1 (Revised)
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This book set highlights aspects of the lives of sixty Companions of the Prophet, some famous, others almost completely unknown. Here the trials and triumphs of the early Muslims as individuals are well-portrayed. Their various parths to Islam ...
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Fifteen Letters
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Author: Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani's name has been adorned by many honorifics down the years. He has been called the Sultan of the Saints (Sultan al-Awliya) and the supreme spiritual helper (al-Ghawth al-Azam). Also called Muhyi'd-Din (reviver of ...
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Al-Farabi Founder Of Islamic Neoplatonism
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The only comprehensive introduction to al-Farabi - the first Islamic philosopher to translate the works of Plato and Aristotle - this new survey from leading scholar Majid Fakhry documents the philosopher's life, writings and achievements ...
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Al-Farooq - Life Of Umar The Great - 2 Vols.
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Omar ibn al-Khattab (Radi'Allaho Anho), the second of the Rightly Guided Khaliphs of Islam, made an inconceivably large contribution not only to the geographic spread of Islam, but to the establishment of justice and intellectual freedom as ...
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Al-Imam Al-Mahdi The Just Leader Of Humanity
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Author: Ibrahim AminiThis is an exposition of the pre-birth states of Imam Al-Mahdi, and the Quranic foretelling and the Prophet and the Imams’ in this regard. It also studies the long life of Al-Mahdi before it moves to mentioning the narratives of his future ...
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Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting
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Author: Jelaluddin Rumi
A new translation of a cycle of ancient poems written by the great 13th- century Sufi scholar. Rumi is most widely known in the West for his love poetry, which has enjoyed a tremendous popular revival in the last few years. Here, he works ...
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Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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Author: Jelaluddin Rumi
The spiritual influence of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is increasing among people of diverse beliefs throughout the western world. Rumi is now recognized here in the West, as he has been for seven centuries in the Middle East and ...
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Rumi Divan-i Kebir Vols. 1-20
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Author: Jelaluddin Rumi
This is the first English translation of Rumi's entire Divan contained in 20 volumes. The Divan-i Kebir, or Divan-i Shams, is the anthology of Rumi's poems from the time he met Shams (1244) until the day he died (1273). He recited (he did not ...
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Rumi Stories for Young Adults
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Author: Jelaluddin Rumi
This series of stories for young adults is to encourage young people to turn to an important literary heritage. This series is recommended for children 13-18 years old although the stories can be read to younger children. The stories here are ...
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Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis
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Dr. Nurbakhsh has compiled in this work numerous passages from the writings of the Sufi masters that express their understanding and profound feeling for Jesus, representing an attitude that has existed amongst the Sufi for centuries. The ...
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Jami: The Persian Mystic
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Author: Hadland Davis
Jami (1414-1492), to scholar and mystic, is considered by many to be one of the greatest Persian poets of the 15th century. This volume, edited by F. Hadland Davis and first published in 1908, contains selections from some of Jami' s ...
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The Book of Wisdom-Intimate Conversations, Vol. 1
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Author: Ibn Ata Allah, Khwaja AnsariIn these critical times nothing could be more valuable for the West than a rediscovery of its true spiritual heritage: books which were once the treasures of people, now rare and little-known." - Seyyed Hossein Nasr translation, introduction and ...
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Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning
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Ernst J. Grube, Oleg Grabar, Ronald Lewcock, James Dickie 'As good a pictorial introduction to the subject as is available' – Apollo 'Richly rewarding … magnificently illustrated' – House and Garden From mosques to markets, from citadels ...
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Fez: City of Islam
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Fez: City of Islam is undoubtedly one of Titus Burckhardt's masterpieces. It conveys a profound understanding of the sacred roots that nourish Islamic culture and civilisation. As a young man in the 1930s, Burckhardt spent some years in ...
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Sufi Book of Spiritual Ascent: (al-Risala al-Qushayriya)
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Author: Abu'L-Qasim AlQushayri
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Concept of Sainthood in Early Islamic Mysticism
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Author: Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi
This book provides translations of the earliest Arabic autobiography and the earliest theoretical explanation of the psychic development and powers of an Islamic saint. It is an important primary source for a complex of religious ideas which have ...
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Awarif Al-Maarif
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Author: Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi
Awarif Al-Maarif is a manual for daily study and practice written by the the renowned thirteenth-century Sufi thinker, Shaykh 'Abu Hafs al-Suhrawardi. The treatise recognizes the primary importance of the Quran ...
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Revelations of the Unseen: Futuh al-Ghayb
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Author: Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
This is a collection of seventy-eight discourses of the Shaykh who was known by his students for his extraordinary spiritual experiences and exploits. These talks, short and to the point, are among the most beautiful oratory the world has ever known ...
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Utterances of Shaikh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani (Malfuzat)
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Author: Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
78 Discourses by Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. Perhaps the most well known collection of the great Shaikh's discourses, these short and powerful discourses cover topics of interest to every seeker of the ...
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Yusuf & Zulaikha: An Allegorical Romance
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Author: Jami Hakim
Described in the Qur’an as ‘the most beautiful of stories’, the romance of Yusuf and Zulaikha is a theme to which Eastern poets have constantly returned. In Jami’s deeply moving, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining version, it finds its ...
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The Autobiography of a Moroccan Soufi
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Ibn Ajiba, an 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawi Sufi lineage, wrote his fahrasa or autobiography not for the pleasure of talking about himself but "to celebrate God's kindness" by informing others of the graces bestowed on him. This account details Ibn Ajiba's travels in search of both secular and spiritual knowledge; his entrance on a Sufi path strongly based within the Islamic tradition; and the social, intellectual, and spiritual struggles that such a search entailed. He spent time in prison, and time in ecstasy.
He tells his tale with humility and a sense of humor, and the story manages to be at the same time practical (details of how much he paid to workmen to build a house or advice to his followers on how to consummate their marriages) and spiritual (explaining the subtleties of mystical experience and how the esoteric way is superior to the exoteric). His zeal for both intellectual learning and the devotional path are apparent on every page. Long unavailable to Western readers, this new English translation by David Streight is based on the contemporary French version by Jean-Louis Michon, a longtime scholar of Islamic culture and traditional ideas in the North African country where Ibn Aijba lived and taught.
" This lengthy and fascinating book is a rare example of the genre of autobiography in Islamic literature. It deals with everything from the little details of everyday life to the mystical states experienced on the path to God. It will be welcomed by everyone interested in the day-to-day workings of Islamic society, the interplay between "exoteric" and "esoteric" learning in the dynamics of Islamic understanding, and the place of the Sufi path in the personal and social life of the community. Recommended for historians and anthropologists, general readers, spiritual seekers, and Sufi adepts."
-- William C. Chittick, State University New York
" A fascinating account of the life of a prolific, yet little known, Moroccan Sufi that casts special light on the socio-cultural and religious milieu of eighteenth-century northwest Africa. By tracing the events of his life between the extremes of the mundane and the spiritual, Ibn �Ajiba paints a detailed and engaging picture of what a person eager for spiritual fulfillment had to learn, practice, and endure along the path of Sufism. In addition to the details of his genealogy, marriages, travels, contact, the geographical and tribal �maps� of his world (of interest to anthropologists and social historians), Ibn �Ajiba provides some insightful commentaries on the Islamic exoteric and esoteric sciences and alludes to the canonical texts in circulation. His preoccupation with the intricacies of daily life foregrounds his reflections and experiences gracefully against the rich, and often disharmonious mosaic of the social, intellectual, pedagogical, and moral values of the time. Michon�s rendering of the original text into French is masterful and elegant, and Streight�s competent translation into English has the subtlety and transparency necessary to reveal Michon�s erudite scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars of Sufism and the socio-cultural history of Morocco and North Africa."
-- Samer Akkach, University of Adelaide
REVIEW:
�One Day I was in my khalwa, on the upper floor of the house. One of my wives got into a rage and came in seething with jealousy. She came up to where I was, grabbed me by the collar, and pulled me, rolling down the stairs; then she showed me out the door and bolted it, forcing me to spend the night outdoors.� [1] This amusing anecdote is taken from the chapter on �Regarding Women We Have Married�� from Ahmad Ibn Ajiba�s Fahrasa. For those who are light readers like myself and fall asleep within ten minutes of opening a book, the humour and style of the Fahrasa will keep you awake beyond those crucial opening minutes! However, care needs to be taken when reading the book as it is a secondary translation, based on a French translation of the original Arabic by Jean Louis-Michon.
The Fahrasa is an autobiography by ibn Ajiba who was an 18th century Darqawi [2] Sufi Shaykh from the Maghreb. The book is a narrative of the journey Ibn Ajiba undertook to seek worldly and religious knowledge. The early chapters concentrate on his background and the company of virtuous and noble people that he kept. We see that he had a traditional scholarly upbringing, memorising Qur�an and hadith and devoted his time to the exoteric sciences.
Ibn Ajiba took the Darqawi tariqa around 1793-1794, and describes the trials that he was inflicted with later. It was not until Ibn Ajiba began studying and living the science of tasawwuf that he had his epiphanic opening which he describes as light shining into his heart. It is at this stage in the Fahrasa that ibn Ajiba makes a distinction between exoteric and esoteric knowledge and explains the nature and structure of the latter.
Those of us not acquainted with the methods of self-purification practised by the Sufis might be puzzled by an example illustrated in chapter eleven. Ibn Ajiba is ordered by his Shaykh to carry garbage over his shoulders and go begging through the markets in Tetuan. Through this exercise, he was shown the virtue of humility in its existential reality, rather than from mere examples and exhortations from a text. An emphasis is made of the importance of action based on knowledge, with reference to Ibn �Ata Allah�s seminal Sufi treatise, �The Hikam�. [3] Ibn Ajiba emphasises the necessity of a Shaykh for a murshid to reach his goal, �for the slightest deviation from the road that is laid out results in making the goal by a great distance.� [4]
This book is also an interesting read for people interested in the history of the period and the Fahrasa gives an excellent account of the socio-cultural milieu of ibn Ajiba�s Morocco. Many facts and details relating to ibn Ajiba�s life are also mentioned. A good example is the description of the ijaza system through which the author was given proof of his competency over works studied with scholars. From personal accounts to spiritual and practical experiences one is kept intrigued and interested by the life of this great author.
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