Memoirs of a Sufi Master : New,
[A5+] Hardback with Dustjacket - 119 pages,
Fawaid min Kunnash,
by Shaykh Ahmad al-Zarruq [d.899h]
Transl & Commentary by Abu Salif Ahmad Ali Al-Adani,
Published by Visions of Reality.

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Description :

First English translation of Sidi Ahmad Zarruq’s ‘Fawa’id min Kunnash’ a collection of autobiographical accounts with commentary.

The text presented here offers a unique insight into the eventful life of one of the greatest spiritual authorities of North Africa, the Sufi sheikh and scholar Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Zarruq al-Burnusi al-Fasi (d. 846-899/1442-93). Ahmad al-Zarruq was the founder of the Zarruqi branch of the Shadhili tariqa (Order), a leading authority in many other Islamic sciences, and the author of numerous major works on Tasawwuf, Hadith, jurisprudence and other subjects. He is widely believed to have been the Mujaddid, or Renewer of the Muslim Umma, of the ninth hijri century. May Allah be well pleased with him.

Sheikh Zarruq kept a kunnash or notebook in which he recorded both important aspects of his personal and scholarly life and also his own brief notes and reflections on many diverse subjects. The surviving manuscripts of his Kunnash are based on a transcription of his autograph. It remains a work of the greatest interest and significance and yet it has never been translated into any language before.

Memoirs of Sufi Master contains a fluent English translation of those portions of the text which concern the Sheikh’s outward life, his spiritual life, and his teachers and companions. Also included are an introduction and a full scholarly commentary providing detailed and wide-ranging background information, much of it never previously published except in Arabic. This book merits a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the spiritual and/or social history of Islam in North Africa, and particularly that of Morocco in the 9th/15th century.

Dimensions : 24 x 16.5cm.