Winter, Michael

Al-ʿArrāqiyya was a Ṣūfī movement that emerged in Syria at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century. It was named for Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, known as Ibn ʿArrāq (d. 933/1526, in Mecca). He also called the order Khawāṭiriyya to designate a method in which the disciple confides his…