Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf al-Uqṣurī

by Gril, Denis

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Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Uqṣurī (d. 642/1244) was a Ṣūfī shaykh and is one of the best known popular figures in Upper Egypt. A native of Luxor (al-Aqṣurayn), he was the disciple, in the late sixth/twelfth century, of two Maghribī masters, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm in Qinā, and ʿAbd al-Razzāq in Alexandria, a disciple of Abū Madyan (d. 594/1198), the main spiritual master of the Maghreb during the second half of the 6th/12th century. Abū l-Ḥajjāj is thus representative

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Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Uqṣurī (d. 642/1244) was a Ṣūfī shaykh and is one of the best known popular figures in Upper Egypt. A native of Luxor (al-Aqṣurayn), he was the disciple, in the late sixth/twelfth century, of two Maghribī masters, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm in Qinā, and ʿAbd al-Razzāq in Alexandria, a disciple of Abū Madyan (d. 594/1198), the main spiritual master of the Maghreb during the second half of the 6th/12th century. Abū l-Ḥajjāj is thus representative

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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