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Works 1. Q. fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2409

Works 1. Manẓūma fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2500.

tanzīh (A) : ‘withdrawal’; in theology, denying God any resemblance to anything. Allāh; Taṣawwuf; tr…

furḳān (A, < Ar) : a Qurʾānic term, which poses problems of interpretation, and has been variously t…

hama ūst (P) : ‘All is He’, in mystical thought on the subcontinent, the equivalent of Waḥdat Al-Wud…

malāmiyya (A) : in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s tripartite division of the Men of God, the Blameworthy, also called the Realisers ( m…

lisān (A) : tongue; language. Lugha; an oral message. Rind; and Lug̲h̲a In the language of scales and balances, …

tawḥīd (A) : the assertion of God’s unity, in a word, monotheism. Taṣawwuf; Tawfīḳ Pas̲h̲a; in current usage, ~ , or ʿilm…

men-huan (Ch) : in Chinese mysticism, the hereditary line of a S̲h̲ayk̲h̲, the group of faithful und…

Sources See: MLG 3231 (possibly the same author as Aḥmad al-Lamtūnī). Works 1. Kitāb fī ʿilm at-taṣawwuf. Subject: Sufism; Form: Book. Cited in MLG 3231(1).

fl. 20th C Sources See: MLG 4490. Biography Muḥammaddū ʿĪsā b. Abī Ṣūfī was from the Idawgat-shā-allāh in the Idābilḥasan tribe. Works 1. Anẓām fī ’t-taṣawwuf. Subject: Sufism; Form: Verse. MSS: IMRS 2569 (AMMS). Cited in MLG 4490(1). 2. Taʾlīf fī ’t-taṣawwuf. Subject: Sufism; Form: Opuscule. MSS: IMRS 2569 (AMMS). Cited in MLG 4490(2).

al-Kūbāwī al-Maghribī, late 19th cent. Sources Nūr al-Dāʾim (1954), 284-86; Qarīb Allāh, al-Taṣawwuf fī ’l-Sūdān, 232. Biography Not originally a Sudanese, he lived in al-Dāmar and Sawākin and died in Mecca. Among those he initiated into the Sammāniyya was Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad ʿUthmān al-Mīrghanī ( q.v.) and al-Ṣiddīq b. al-Amīn b. Ḥamad al-Majdhūb, who thereby became the ancestor of the Sammānī branch of the Majādhīb family. Ḥasīb is said to have written extensively on taṣawwuf. Works 1. Naẓm Mukhtaṣar Khalīl.Arrangement of the Mukhtaṣar of Khalīl.

Sources See: AMMS. Biography Sīdī Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Sīdī Muḥammad was originally from a scholarly clan, the Ahl Sīdī Muḥammad, within the Awlād Busbāʿ. Risāla fī ’t-taṣawwuf. Subject: Sufism; Form: Risala.MSS: IMRS 2370 (AMMS).

Sources See: MLG 1065. Works 1. Qaṣīda fī hijāʾ Kunta. Subject: Literature: satire; Form: qaṣīda. Cited in MLG 1085(2). 2. Qaṣīditān fī taṣawwuf. Subject: Sufism; Form: qaṣīda. Cited in MLG 1065(1).

Works 1. Q. dāliyya fī ’l-taṣawwuf MS: Paris (BN), 5606, f. 94v. 2. Q. nūniyya fī madḥ al-TijāniyyīnIn praise of the Tijānīs of Māsina persecuted by Aḥmad b. Sh. Aḥmad Lobbo, written in the year of the latter’s death.MS: Paris (BN), 5606, ff. 96v-97r.

d. 1365/1945–6 Sources See: MLG 1877. Biography Muḥammad ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān b. Bāba was from the Idābilḥasan tribe. Works 1. Taʾlīf fī ’t-taṣawwuf. Subject: Sufism; Form: Opuscule. MSS: IMRS 2350 (AMMS). Cited in MLG 1877(1).

kas̲h̲f (A) : in mysticism, the act of lifting and tearing away the veil (which comes between man an…

tas̲h̲bīh (A) : ‘the act of comparing, comparison’; in rhetoric, a simile. Istiʿāra; al-Rummānī In theology, the c…

dört (T) : four. dört bölük (T), or bölükat-i erbaʿa : a collective name for the four lowest cavalry regiment…

Works 1. FatwāMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2264. 2. Manẓūma fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2331, 2530. 3. Q. fī’l-madḥMSS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB). 2262, 2265, 2686., 33401 4. Q. fī madḥ al-atāyMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2332. 5. Majmūʿa qaṣāʾidMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3351.