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Apparu dès l'aube de l'islam, le soufisme est la dimension spirituelle et ésotérique de la révélation coranique. Il se fonde sur la contemplation des réalités invisibles du monde et sur la recherche de la sagesse.Conçu par un spécialiste reconnu du sujet, ce guide propose une in…
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī (al-) Bisṭāmī (d. 858/1454) was a scholar of occultism and a Ṣūfī mystic. Born in Antioch (modern Antakya), he owes his name to his association across the time (that is in the Uwyasī way), the renowned Iranian Ṣūfī Abū Yazīd …
Shaykh Arslān b. Yaʿqūb, al-Jaʿbarī al-Dimashqī (d. between 555/1160 and 560/1164) was a Syrian Ṣūfī and the “patron saint” of Damascus. Born in Qalʿat Jaʿbar, in northeastern Syria, between 470/1077 and 475/1082, he settled in Damascus probably at a fairly early date and earned…
[al-] ʿAlawiyya (in the Maghrib) refers to a Ṣūfī path (ṭarīqa) and branch of the Shādhiliyya-Darqāwiyya founded in 1333/1914 by Shaykh Aḥmad b. ʿAlīwa, or al-ʿAlawī (1869–1934), from Mostaghanem, Algeria, who was originally affiliated with the ṭarīqa ʿĪsāwiyya and was an autodi…
[al-] ʿAlawiyya ( in Syria and Palestine from 1932). The ʿAlawiyya order ( ṭarīqa , lit., “path”) has developed from its mother order ʿAlawiyya-Darqāwiyya-Shādhiliyya, founded in 1333/1914 by Shaykh Aḥmad b. ʿAlīwa or al-ʿAlawī, from Mostaghanem (Algeria). On his way back from t…
ʿAlī b. Maymūn al-Fāsī al-Ghumārī (854–917/1450–1511) was a Moroccan ʿālim and Ṣūfī whose spiritual career unfolded in the Middle East. Born in the region of Ghumārā (north Morocco), he studied Islamic sciences locally, then in Fez, from 876/1471. He held the office of qāḍī in C…
Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Ḥijāzī b. Muḥammad al-Bayyumī (1108–83/1696–1769) was an Egyptian Ṣūfī, the founder of the Bayyūmiyya ṭarīqa (“path,” hence Ṣūfī “order”). Born in the village of Bayyūm (in Lower Egypt), he resided initially in the Khalwatī zāwiya (lodge) of Shaykh Damirdāsh (…
The Bayyūmiyya is an independent branch of the Aḥmadiyya (or Badawiyya) ṭarīqa (lit. “path,” hence religious “order”). Founded in Cairo by ʿAlī al-Bayyūmī (d. 1183/1769), it is a popular Egyptian order whose principles go back to the teaching of Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī. While it …