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Baṣra
(36,737 words)
Baṣra, a province and historic city in south-east Iraq.1. GeographyThe province has an area of 20,702 km² (Directory of the Republic of Iraq, 57), the centre of which is the historical town of Baṣra. Baṣra province is bounded by the al-Muthannā (Samāwa) province to the west, by Iran (Khūzistān province) to the east, by Maysān province (ʿAmāra) to the north-east, by the Dhīqār province (Nāṣiriyya) to the north-west, by the Persian Gulf to the south-east, and by Kuwait to the south and south-west. The city…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
(65,753 words)
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, first cousin of the Prophet Muḥammad; first of the Imams for all Shiʿi Muslims—the very term
Shīʿa being derived from the designation
Shīʿat ʿAlī, ‘the supporters of ʿAlī’; fourth and last of the ‘rightly-guided caliphs’ (
al-khulafāʾ al-rāshidūn); son-in-law of the Prophet through marriage to Fāṭima; father of the Prophet’s only surviving grandsons, al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, and thus forebear of all the descendants of the Prophet, referred to as the spiritual ‘nobility’ (the
shurafāʾ, sing.
sharīf; or
sādāt, sing.
sayyid, lit. ‘lord’) of the Muslim community.…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
Ibn Muḥammad al-Gallādī
(12 words)
Works 1.
Q. fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2409
Date:
2017-03-02
ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥamīd al-Sūqī
(14 words)
Works 1.
Manẓūma fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2500.
Date:
2017-03-02
Ḥasīb b. Imām
(89 words)
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.
Date:
2017-03-02
Muṣṭafā b. Ibrāhīm al-Dakarī/Dukurī
(49 words)
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.
Date:
2017-03-02
Abū Bakr b. Ḥammād al-Inūkundarī
(43 words)
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.
Date:
2017-03-02
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Inūkundarī
(45 words)
Works 1.
Manẓūma fī ’l-duʿāʾMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2529. 2.
Manẓūma fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2540(i), 2532 (2 such). 3.
Q. fī ’l-madḥMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2325. 4.
Q. fī madḥ al-rasūlMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB). 2546, 2538 (several), 2899, 3358 (several).
Date:
2017-03-02
Saʿd b. al-Ḥājj b. Ḥammā al-Inūkundarī
(46 words)
Works 1.
Q. fī madḥ akhīhi ʿUthmān b. al-ḤājjMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2552. 2.
Q. fī madḥ ʿUmar b. Sadīd al-TāriqīMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2556. 3.
Q. fī ’l-difāʿ ʿan al-TijāniyyaMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 1906. 4.
Manẓūma fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2105.
Date:
2017-03-02
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣārī al-Māsinī
(48 words)
Works 1.
Q. bāʾiyyaOn the camel of the prophet Ṣāliḥ (see Qurʾān, 17:59
et seq.)MS: Paris (BN), 5713, f. 157r. 2.
Q. rāʾiyya fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Paris (BN), 5695, ff, 96r-97r. 3.
Q. fī madḥ Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-TijānīMS: Paris (BN), 5713, f. 157r.
Date:
2017-03-02
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Ṣayd, Abū Bakr
(65 words)
Works 1.
FatwāOn sacrificing an animal that has a sickness of the udder.MS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3115. 2.
Ijāza fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 4176. 3.
Ijāza li-Khālid b. Maḥmūd
Ijāza for the
Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī.MS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3135. 4.
R. ilā Ibn HanūnThe recipient was the
amīr of the Awlād ʿAllūsh.MS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3707.
Date:
2017-03-02
Fayḍiyya
(565 words)
The
Fayḍiyya is an Egyptian Ṣūfī order (Ar.,
ṭarīqa, lit. way) founded in 1920 by Maḥmūd Abū l-Fayḍ al-Minūfī al-Ḥusaynī (d. 1972). Abū l-Fayḍ mentioned the spiritual genealogy
(silsila) of his order, a branch of the Shādhiliyya, in a short autobiography published at the end of his book
Jamharat al-awliyāʾ wa-aʿlām ahl al-taṣawwuf (“Assembly of saints and grand masters of Ṣūfism”; Cairo 1967, 269–70) (the Shādhiliyya, founded by the Moroccan Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 656/1258), is well established in North Africa and the central Middle East). H…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr b. Anbūja
(83 words)
Works 1.
Khizānat al-adab fī ma ʿrifat ansāb al- ʿArabMSS: Paris (BN), 5397, ff. 1-124, 5510, ff. lr-210r, 5722, ff. 115r-v. 2.
Qaṣāʾid fī madḥ al-ḥājj ʿUmar3 such.MS: Paris (BN), 5599, ff. lr-4v. 3.
Shams al-qaṣāʾid al-ghurar fī tahniʾat al-shaykh ʿUmarMSS: Paris (BN), 5599, ff. 4v-10v, 5602, ff. 87r-v, 5688, ff, 74r-75r, 6107, 16v-17v, 18v. 4.
Tafsīr al-QurʾānCompleted 16 Muḥammad 1286/18 November 1851.MS: Paris (BN), 5579, 3r-204r. 5.
Urjūza fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Paris (BN), 5716, ff. 49v-64v.
Date:
2017-03-02
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad (b.) Sadīd al-Gallādī
(84 words)
Works 1.
Q. fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2902 (2 such). 2.
Q. fī madḥ al-MaḥmūdMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 2904. 3.
Q. fī madḥ Muḥammad al-Muṣṭafā al-GallādīMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3378. 4.
Q. fī madḥ al-shaykh Abī’l-ʿAbbāsMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3894. 5.
Q. fī ’l-radd ʿalā munkir al-TijāniyyaMS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3368. 6.
Tanbīh al-kuhūl wa’l-murd ʿalā taḥrīm laʿb al-shiṭranj wa’l-nard wa-ghayrihimā min al-laʿb al-shāghil ʿan dhikr Allāh al-Fard Attacking the playing of chess and backgammon.MSS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 3383, 6395, 8375.
Date:
2017-03-02
ʿAbd al-Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jaylī b.
(95 words)
died sometime before 1981. Sources ʿAbd al-Maḥmūd,
al-Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jaylī, 31-37. Biography Succeeded his father as head of the Ṭābat branch of the Sammāniyya in 1965. He is said to have left over twenty writings, of which only two can be described. Works 1.
Naẓarāt fī ’l-taṣawwuf al-Islāmī.MS: 870 pp. (ʿAbd al-Maḥmūd,
al-Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jaylī, 34). 2.
al-Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jaylī, ḥayātuhu wa-āthāruhu.Ed. by Shaykh al-Jaylī b. ʿAbd al-Maḥmūd.Hagiography of the author’s father.Publ. n.p., n.d.; Mashyakhat al-ṭarīqa al-Sammāniyya fī ’l-Ṭābat, 421 pp.
Date:
2017-03-02
Ibrāhīm Aḥmad Niang
(137 words)
known as
Ustādh Barham Niang Biography Born in the early 1930s, he received his elementary training in Kaolack before attending Al-Azhar where he graduated. On his return he taught Arabic for several years in high schools in Senegal before retiring. Works 1.
Amān wa-amān fī tashṭir ba ʿḍ qaṣā ʿid maulānā al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm NiyāsElegy for
Sh. Nadhīr b. Ibrāhim Niyās.Publ. in
Aṣdā al-fayḍa, 1, 1998. 2.
Āthār al-taṣawwuf fī ḥayāt al-Shaykh al-ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh NiyāsPaper presented at the International Conference on the Life and Works of al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh Niyās, Dakar, Unio…
Date:
2017-03-02
Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fullānī
(126 words)
known as
Ismāʿīl al-Khalīfa, b.
c. 1932. Sources Interview of 14/8/95. Biography He was born in Gamawa in Bauchi State and studied the Qurʾān with Ibrāhīm Muḥammad, imam of Gamawa. Later he studied
fiqh, tafsīr and grammar with Aḥmad al-Tijānī ʿUthmān, whose disciple (and later
khalīfa) he became. His first initiation into the Tijāniyya came from the
qāḍī of Bauchi, Muḥammad Bello, and he later received an
ijāza from Sh. Ibrāhīm Niasse. He was made a
muqaddam by Aḥmad al-Tijānī ʿUthmān, and carries on his teaching tradition, both from his own house and from the house of his late shaykh. Works 1…
Date:
2017-03-02
Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Aḥmad al-Bāghunī al-Anṣārī
(91 words)
Works 1.
Q. lāmiyya fī ’l-taṣawwufMS: Paris (BN), 5519, f. 95. 2.
Q. mīmiyyaDefence of
Sī. Aḥmad al-Tijānī.MS: Paris (BN), 5713, ff. 192-3. 3.
Q. nūniyya fī madḥ shaykhihiMS: Paris (BN), 5605, f. 74v.; see also 5713, ff. 192-3. 4.
Q. fī madḥ Aḥmad al-TijānīMS: Paris (BN), 5575, ff. 217v-218v. Perhaps the author of a poem (
nūniyya) addressed to al-Bakkāʾī, containing the line:
Madḥun wa-dhammun fī maqāmin wāḥidī * Min wāḥidin li-wāḥidin ʿajabānī. See Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Tijānī,
Tarjamat mawlānā al-shaykh Muḥammad al-Hāshimī, 7.
Date:
2017-03-02
Muṣṭafā b. Aḥmad b. al-Imām Siré b. al-Ḥasan
(123 words)
called
ʿUmar Jeliya Biography Brother of the preceding. Works 1. Abridgt. of
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawānāt al-kubrā of Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Damīrī.MS: Paris (BN), 5467, ff. 267-302. 2. Various questions.MS: Paris (BN), 5584, f. 127r.; Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 842. 3.
Q. kāfiyyaOn the conquest of a town by the Muslims.MS: Paris (BN), 5678, f. 163r. 4.
Q. lāmiyyaVersification of some exhortations of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. Dated 26 or 27 Shawwāl 132(?).MS: Paris (BN), 5561, f. 4v. 5.
Q. lāmiyyaExhortations in Sufi fashionMS: Paris (BN), 5722, f. 87r. 6.
Q. rāʾiyya fī ’l-taṣawwufCompleted on 16 Shaʿbān 1297/…
Date:
2017-03-02
Ibn al-Zayyāt al-Tādilī
(2,049 words)
Al-Tādilī (d. 627/1229–30 or 628/1230–1), known as
Ibn al-Zayyāt, was a Moroccan
qāḍī and scholar renowned for his hagiographical work
al-Tashawwuf ilā rijāl al-taṣawwuf. 1. Life His full name is Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Yaḥyā b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tādilī. He was born in the region of Tādla during the second half of the sixth/twelfth century and died in Marrakech. He did not attract the attention of such later authors as al-Bādisī (d. after 722/1322) and Ibn Qunfudh (d. 810/1407–8), but they nevertheless used
al-Tashawwuf in their writings. Al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) devoted some…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
