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 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 Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality ...

, 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

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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

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as if they were a single school. He considered the differences, according to their difficulty, as either strictness ('azima) or dispensation ( rukhsa).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 '' *'

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharani Asharis Shafi'is Mujaddid Sunni Sufis Sufi mystics Sufi teachers Sufi writers Muslim mystics Sunni imams Sunni Muslim scholars Supporters of Ibn Arabi 1492 births 1565 deaths 16th-century Egyptian people 16th-century jurists

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