Despite the growing interest in the intellectual history of early modern Arabs and Ottomans, many key figures of the period remain unknown. In this unique biographical account, edited and published here for the first time, Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (1760-1799), the chief S…
Despite the growing interest in the intellectual history of early modern Arabs and Ottomans, many key figures of the period remain unknown. In this unique biographical account, edited and published here for the first time, Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (1760-1799), the chief S…
For the first time al-Ghazzī's authoritative biography of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, al-Wird al-Unsī, is being presented in this critical edition along with new critical reviews of al-Nābulusī's large body of works and of modern literature on him.
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…