Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is a truly representative collection of literary extracts from across the Arabic-speaking world. Extracts from each country in the Arab world have been carefully selected, with a balance of both male and female writers and prominent and emerging v…
The first study of Ibn 'Alwan and the first comprehensive analysis of medieval Yemeni mysticism in Western scholarship, Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam is essential reading for all those interested in mysticism, early Islam, Sufism, Yemen, and religion and history more gen…
Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ibn 'Alwan lived through the transition from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen. He was well known in his time for his critique of the ruling elites and their governance, and left behind a substantial body of writings on Islamic my…
The first study of Ibn 'Alwan and the first comprehensive analysis of medieval Yemeni mysticism in Western scholarship, Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam is essential reading for all those interested in mysticism, early Islam, Sufism, Yemen, and religion and history more gen…
Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ibn 'Alwan lived through the transition from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen. He was well known in his time for his critique of the ruling elites and their governance, and left behind a substantial body of writings on Islamic my…
Aḥmad b. ʿAlwān (d. 665/1266) was a Yemeni Ṣūfī and central figure in the Rasūlid era. His genealogy is traced back to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law. Ibn ʿAlwān was born in Dhū al-Janān around 600/1203 and was raised in ʿUqāqa, two villages on the outski…