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Title: | The letters of Ahmad Ibn Idris |
Editors: | Idris, Ahmad Ibn Hofheinz, A. Thomassen, Einar Radtke, Bernd |
Year: | 1993 |
Pages: | 184 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | Hurst & Company |
ISBN: | 1850651582 |
Geographic term: | Morocco |
Subjects: | Sufism letters (form) |
About person: | Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Idris (ca. 1749-1837) |
Abstract: | Ahmad Ibn Idr¯is (1749-50 or 1760 to 1837) was born in Morocco. He received his basic religious education at the Qarawiyy¯in mosque school in Fez, and was initiated into Sufism by several 'shaykhs' connected with the Sh¯adhil¯i tradition. It was in Mecca, where he arrived in 1799, that he exercised his greatest influence, attracting students from all corners of the Islamic world. He was an outstanding religious teacher and scholar, who did not look upon himself as a reformer or renewer, but whose concern was the moral and spiritual education of the individual Muslim on the basis of traditional Sufi discipline. The contents of his letters, reproduced here in Arabic with English translation, vary, from practical counsels on matters of 'fiqh' or Sufism, moral exhortation to intimate spiritual advice. Whatever the subject matter Ibn Idr¯is always expressed his concern for his correspondent's relationship with God. Ibn Idr¯is's correspondents are: Makk¯i b. Abd al-Az¯iz, Muhammad Uthm¯an al-M¯irghan¯i, Muhammad al-Majdh¯ub, Arab¯i al-Haww¯ar¯i, Abd al-Rahm¯an al-Ahdal, Muhammad b. Jafar, Al¯i b. Mujaththal, Abd All¯ah b. Muhammad. |