Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi al-Shadhili · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: mystic · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region: Maghreb · Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Molla 'Abd al-Karim al-Rumi · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian

Spirituality and Sufism

Overview

Abu'l-Mawahib Muhammad b. Ahmad, the exacting Tunisian Shadhili shaykh and imam resident in Egypt — the one who sat facing the Maghribis' riwaq at al-Azhar, a man of litanies and states; Burhan al-Din al-Aqsara'i took tasawwuf from him and was called "al-Mawahibi" after him. He died in 901. ¹

Connections

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Taught: Burhan al-Din al-Iqsara'i al-Muwahhibi

People and things also explored

Burhan al-Din al-Iqsara'i al-Muwahhibi· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)

Sources

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 426, 454

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Burhan al-Din al-Iqsara'i al-Muwahhibi

Named 'al-Muwahhibi' after his initiator Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi — 'the great saint' whose grace, the source says, opened hearts through him; Ibn Fahd notes his three years' residence at Mecca from 904; author of Ihkam al-Hikam on Ibn 'Ata' Allah's Hikam, a sharh on the Sanusiyya in usul, Sharh al-Tamwil on the litany 'Ya mawlana ya Wahid ya Ahad', a diwan, seven ahzab and works on the Prophetic visitation; d. Thursday night 18 Jumada II 908.