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ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl (1050–1143/1641–1731) of Damascus, known as Ibn al-Nābulusī, was an eminent Ṣūfī scholar and a leading Muslim polymath of the early modern period. According to his own autobiographical notes, he was born on 4 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1050/17 March 1641 ( al-Ḥawḍ al-mawrūd, fol. 48), during his father’s journey to Egypt ( al-Ḥaqīqa wa-l-majāz, 1:50). The eminent Damascene historian and Ḥanafī jurisconsult, al-Murādī (d. 1206/1791), in his widely quoted source, Silk al-durar ( The thread of pearls, 3:32), reports that he was born on 5 Dhū …

ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date of Birth: 1641 Place of Birth: Damascus Date of Death: 1731 Place of Death: Damascus BiographyAn eminent theologian, jurist, poet, Sufi, and great commentator on Ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 1240) mystical thought, ʿAbd al-Ghanī l-Nābulusī was one of the most illustrious intellectual figures of the 17th- and 18th-century Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire. He served as judge in al-Maydān (south of Damascus), and then as mufti of Damascus for a short period of time. He held a teaching post at th…

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al-Nābulusī, a mystic and very voluminous writer, born on the 5th Ḏh̲u ‘l-Ḥid̲j̲d̲j̲a 1050 (19th March 1641). Having lost his father at an early age, he entered the Ṣūfī order of the Ḳādirīya and of the Naḳs̲h̲bandīya and studied for seven years in Damascus in his house in the vicinity of the Umaiyad Mosque the mystical works of Ibn ʿArabī and ʿAfīf al-Dan al-Tilimsānī. At the age of 25 he made his first journey to Bagdad and stayed there some time. In his manhood, as he had already gained a certain ¶ reputation as a mystic, he made several circular journeys, especially in his native …

b. Ismāʿīl al-Nābulusī , a mystic, theologian, poet, traveller, and voluminous writer on a variety of subjects, born in Damascus 5 Ḏh̲u’l-Ḥid̲j̲d̲j̲a 1050/19 March 1641, and the leading figure in the religious and literary life of Syria in his time. His family, traditionally S̲h̲āfiʿī (though his father had changed to the Ḥanafī rite), had long been settled in Damascus and Muḥibbī describes his great-grandfather as " s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ mas̲h̲āʾik̲h̲ al-S̲h̲ām " ( Ḵh̲ulāṣa , ii, 433). He early showed an interest in mysticism, joining the Ḳādirī and Naḳs…

al-Nābulusī, mystique, théologien, poète, voyageur et polygraphe, né à Damas le 5 d̲h̲ū l-hid̲j̲d̲j̲a 1050/19 mars 1641, principale figure de la vie religieuse et littéraire en Syrie à cette époque. Sa famille, traditionneliement shāfiʿite (quoique son père fût passé au rite ḥanafite), était installée à Damas depuis longtemps et Muḥibbī qualifie son arrière grand-père de s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ mas̲h̲āʾik̲h̲ al-S̲h̲ām (Ḵh̲ulāṣa, II, 433). Il montra un intérêt précoce pour le mysticisme, se joignit aux ṭarīḳas des Ḳādiriyya et des Naḳs̲h̲abandiyya, et, jeune homme, …

, a traditionist originally from Nābulus [ q.v.] who was the raʾīs of Ramla and who used often to make retreat with his disciples in the Akuwāk̲h̲ Bāniyās (“the huts of Bāniyās”) at the foot of Mt. Hermon in the Syrian D̲j̲awlān. He publicly opposed the Fāṭimid occupation of Syria. Taken from Damascus and sent in a cage to Egypt, on the orders of the caliph al-Muʿizz [ q.v.] he was flayed alive in 363/973 at the Manẓar, the belvedere on the road connecting Fusṭāṭ with Cairo (the relevant Arabic texts and details of his biography and of the numerous famous muḥaddit̲h̲ s and …

, muḥaddit̲h̲ originaire de Nābulus, fut raʾīs de Ramla et faisait fréquemment retraite avec ses disciples aux Akuwāk̲h̲ Bāniyās (les huttes de Bāniyās), au pied de l’Hermon, dans le Ḏj̲awlān syrien. Il s’opposa publiquement à l’occupation fāṭimide de la Syrie. Pris à Damas et expédié en cage en Égypte, il fut écorché vif en 363/973 sur ordre du calife al-Muʿizz, au Manẓar, le belvédère situé sur la route allant de Fuṣṭāṭ au Caire (les textes arabes de référence et les détails sur sa biographie et sur les nombreux muḥaddit̲h̲s et historiens célèbres qu’il a formés ou fréquentés se …

b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām b. Kaʿb b. G̲h̲anm b. Salima , Abū ʿAbd Allāh (or Abu ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, or Abū Muḥammad) al-Salamī al-K̲h̲azrad̲j̲ī al-Anṣārī , Companion of the Prophet. His father, ʿAbd Allāh, was one of the seventy men of Aws and Ḵh̲azrad̲j̲ who gave the Prophet the oath of allegiance at the ʿAḳaba Meeting [see al-ʿaḳaba ] and committed themselves to defend him. His father is also recorded in the list of the twelve nuḳabāʾ , the chosen group from among the seventy; D̲j̲ābir himself had attended the Meeting as a very young boy, and is therefore cou…

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Zayn al-Dīn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Ḥumaydī (d. 1004/1595 or 1005/1596) was a physician and warrāq (copyist and bookseller) active in Ottoman Cairo. As a writer and poet, he is noted for his sophisticated eulogies on the Prophet. Sources about al-Ḥumaydī’s life are sparse. He himself traced his ancestry to the famous Meccan ḥadīth scholar and compiler ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr al-Ḥumaydī (d. 219/834 or later). The only contemporary writer to have recorded a few details about the later stages of al-Ḥumaydī’s life was Shihāb al-Dīn al-Khafājī …

, Compagnon du Prophète; son père, ʿAbd Allāh, était l’un des 70 hommes des Aws et des Ḵh̲azrad̲j̲ qui, à la ʿAḳaba [ q.v.], prêtèrent le serment d’allégeance au Prophète en s’engageant à le défendre, et son nom se trouve dans la liste des douze nuḳabāʾ, choisis parmi les 70. Ḏj̲ābir lui-même, encore enfant, avait assisté à cette assemblée et se trouvait donc parmi « les Soixantedix » et dans la liste honorable de ceux qui embrassèrent l’Islam en même temps que leurs pères. ʿAbd Allāh ne lui permit pas de prendre part aux batailles de Badr…

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‘Response to the question raised by the Patriarch of the Christians’ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date: 1712 Original Language: Arabic DescriptionThis is al-Nābulusī’s response to the three theological questions on the essence of God and his attributes raised by the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Athanasius Dabbās (d. 1724). Although he does not name his addressee, the interlocutor is identified as the Patriarch by Bakri Aladdin, who has edited and published the text (Aladdin, ‘Deux  fatwā-s’, p. 8; citations that follow refer to this ed…

‘Treatise in response to the question of one of the dhimmīs’ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date: Undated; presumably 1725-6 or earlier Original Language: Arabic DescriptionThis is a short (three-folio) treatise written in response to an unnamed Christian scholar who apparently raised some questions concerning divine names and attributes. Al-Nābulusī accuses his addressee of being ignorant in knowing his Lord, the Creator. Although we are not told what he was asked about exactly, al-Nābulu…

‘A sound discourse concerning the possibility that God will not carry out his threats and a refutation of the stubborn Turk’ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date: 1692 Original Language: Arabic DescriptionThis treatise concerns the question of salvation, and whether the  ahl al-kitāb, Jews and Christians, will be among those granted felicity in the hereafter. It is written in the form of a theological defence of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240), and is directed against an unnamed Turkish scholar who apparently criticis…

‘Treatise in response to the question reaching us from Jerusalem the noble concerning the special tax revenues from non-Muslims on wax, sugar, broadcloth and other goods, and an explanation of its legal status’ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date: 1702 Original Language: Arabic DescriptionThis work is al-Nābulusī’s response to the question raised by some Muslim residents of Jerusalem concerning certain taxes ( ʿawāʾid) on wax, sugar and broadcloth that were collected from non-Muslims monthly, yearly or every third year, the r…

‘Refutation of the slanderer concerning the defamation of al-Shushtarī’ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date: 1685 Original Language: Arabic DescriptionThis is al-Nābulusī’s commentary on the famous poem by the Andalusian Sufi, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī l-Shushtarī (d. 1269), a disciple of Ibn Sabʿīn (d. 1269-70). Al-Shushtarī used Christian imagery in his poetry to express his spiritual journey to God. As the poem had been criticised by some of al-Nābulusī’s contemporaries, he was asked to ex…

‘Opening the eye and removing the cloud on the difference between the two basmalas, and expounding the meaning of the two ways of naming God’ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date: 1720 Original Language: Arabic DescriptionThis short text was written in response to a question on whether the  basmala of the Gospel (In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) was the same as the  basmala of the Qur’an (In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Compassionate). In his response, al-Nābulusī first lays out his theology, empha…