Akkach, Samer

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…

The beautiful (or most beautiful) names of God (al-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā) is an expression that appears in four verses ( sūra s) of the Qurʾān: al-Aʿrāf , 180; al-Isrāʾ , 110; Ṭāha , 8; and al-Ḥashr , 24. Inviting believers to use them when calling on or appealing to God, one verse say…