Al-Sha'rani

'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani
عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى
Personal Details
Born Saqiyat Abu Sha'ra[1]
Died AH 973 (1565/1566)[1]
Era Medieval philosophy
Religion Islam
Jurisprudence Shafi'i
Creed Ashari[1]
Main interest(s) History

'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/31565, AH 898973, full name Arabic: عبد الوهاب ابن أحمد الشعرانى ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ash-Shaʿrānī) was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism, eponynously known as Šaʿrāwiyyah. The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century. Sharani's master was the prominent Shaykh Ali al-Khawas.[3]

Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a treatise by as-Suwaydī (12041292; AH 604690).[4]

His seminal work Al-Mizan al-Kubra (The Supreme Scale) compares the rulings of all four Sunni schools of sharia as if they were a single school. He considered the differences, according to their difficulty, as either strictness ('azima) or dispensation (rukhsa).

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Spevack, Aaron (2014). The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri. State University of New York Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4384-5370-5.
  2. 1 2 Spevack, Aaron (2014). The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri. State University of New York Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4384-5370-5.
  3. Woodhead, Christine, ed. (15 December 2011). "The Ottoman World". Routledge via Google Books.
  4. 1 2 Muẖtaṣar taḏkira-t as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb / lil Imām aš-Šaʿrānī ; wa bi-hāmiš-i-hā taḏkira-t aš-Šayẖ ʾAḥmad al-Qalyūbī fī l-ṭibb ed. Cairo, 1302 [1885]/1316 [1899]; ed. Aḥmad Farīd al-Mazīdī, Beirut (1998). MS A 45 in the US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
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