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ʿAlawī, Wajīh al-Dīn
(1,230 words)
Wajīh al-Dīn ʿAlawī Gujarātī (910–98/1504–90) was a prominent Ṣūfī and a scholar of
ḥadīth in the city of Aḥmadābād, in Gujarat. He infused
ḥadīth studies with monistic mysticism, creating a style of Ṣūfism that flourished in the Shaṭṭāriyya communities of Gujarat, Mecca, and Indonesia (the Shaṭṭārī Ṣūfī order, whose adherents stress the self, personal deeds, personal attributes that make a person godlike, and personal union with God, was introduced into India by Shāh ʿAbdallāh, d. 890/1485). Wajīh al-Dīn was born in Aḥmadābād to a family of scholars, jurists, and Ṣūfīs…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī
(2,446 words)
ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith
Dihlavī (958–1052/1551–1642) was an Indian scholar and Ṣūfī who revived
ḥadīth studies in India and rendered Ṣūfī biographies into elegant prose. He wrote approximately sixty books in Arabic and Persian, many of which have been published in the original or in Urdu translation. He composed Persian verse under the
takhalluṣ (pen name) Ḥaqqī (“Truthful”). Born in Delhi, he died there at the age of ninety-four, on 21 Rabīʿ I 1052/19 June 1642. 1. Scholarly and Ṣūfī training As a child, he was initiated into the Qādirī order by his father, Shaykh Sayf al-D…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
ʿAlī Muttaqī
(1,761 words)
ʿAlī b. Ḥusām al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Mālik b. Qāḍī Khān, known as “
Muttaqī” (885–975/1480–1568) was a leading
ḥadīth scholar, reform-oriented Ṣūfī, and political advisor in the sultanate of Gujarat. He wrote approximately sixty books about
ḥadīth, Ṣūfism, and morality.
1. Life Born in Burhānpūr in 885/1480, ʿAlī Muttaqī was initiated into the Chishtiyya brotherhood (
ṭarīqa, lit. “way”) under Bahāʾ al-Dīn Shāh Bājan (d. 911/1506). He served in the court at Māndʾū in his teens, but soon afterwards renounced worldly ambition. In his extreme asceticism and interest in reviving the
sharīʿa, …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
ʿAbdallāh Shaṭṭār
(990 words)
ʿAbdallāh Shaṭṭār (d. 890/1485) propagated a new Ṣūfī community, the Shaṭṭāriyya, which became influential in tenth/sixteenth-century South Asia. His followers encouraged synthesis with Hindu ideals in music, literature and Yogic devotions. 1. Life Nicknamed Shaṭṭār (swift-paced) and given the title “Shāh” (king), he lived in the vicinity of Samarqand and was the
khalīfa of Shaykh Muḥammad ʿĀrif in the ʿIshqiyya (not Muḥammad ʿĀshiq, as reported in Niẓāmī). The ʿIshqiyya is a Ṣūfī
ṭarīqa in Central Asia that goes back to the Khalwātī order with links to Najm al-Dīn …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
ʿAbdallāh Ṣūfī Shaṭṭārī
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ʿAbdallāh Ṣūfī Shaṭṭārī (d. 1010/1601) was a
ḥadīth scholar and a Ṣūfī in the Shaṭṭāriyya order, which was introduced into India by Shāh ʿAbdallāh Shaṭṭār (d. 890/1485 in Mandu). ʿAbdallāh Ṣūfī Shaṭṭārī helped establish a vibrant connection between the centre of Shaṭṭārī Ṣūfī activity in Gujarat and the holy cities in Arabia, and he wrote seven works on mysticism. 1. Life ʿAbdallāh Ṣūfī Shaṭṭārī was born in 904/1498 in Sandīla, a town in present–day Uttar Pradesh, and he joined a Ṣūfī order at age nine—apparently the Chishtiyya (founded in Chisht, a small…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Zarrūq, Aḥmad
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Aḥmad al-Burnūsī al-Fāsī “
Zarrūq” (846–99/1442–94) was a reform-oriented Ṣūfī, Mālikī jurist, and social critic in North Africa. 1. Life Aḥmad Zarrūq was born in Fez (Fās) and trained as a jurist with a Ṣūfī orientation under Muḥammad al-Qūrī (d. 872/1467–8). In 869/1465, Zarrūq opposed a revolution against the last Marīnid sultan, ʿAbd al-Ḥāqq II (r. 823–69/1420–65). Zarrūq left Fes after breaking with his first Ṣūfī master, Muḥammad al-Zaytūnī (died circa 910–20/1504–14) who supported the revolution. Zarrūq reco…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
