Muhammad 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi (also Al-Manawi) ( ar, محمد عبد الرؤوف المناوي), was an

Ottoman period The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

Islamic scholar of

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, known for his works on the

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and the history of Sufism in Egypt. He was a disciple of

al-Sha`rani Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ar, عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى ') was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism, eponymously known as '. Th ...

. Author of ''Tawqīf ʿalā Muhammāt al-Taʿārīf''.

Name

Muhammad 'Abd al-Ra'uf ibn Taj al-'Arifin ibn 'Ali ibn Zayn al-'Abidin al-Haddddi al-Manawi (al-Munawi).

Works

*'' Fayd al-Qadir Sharh al-Jami` al-Saghir'' (ed. Beirut: Dar al-Ma‘rifah), commentary on the ''Jami`'' by Imam al-Suyuti

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* Asharis Shafi'is Sunni Sufis Sunni Muslim scholars Sunni imams Shafi'i fiqh scholars Hadith scholars 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Critics of Ibn Taymiyya Critics of Ibn al-Qayyim 16th-century Egyptian historians 17th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Muslim historians of Islam 1545 births 1621 deaths 1622 deaths Supporters of Ibn Arabi {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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