Shaʿrānī
ʿAbdul Wahhab Shaʿrani (b. AD 1492 / AH 898, d. AD 1565 / AH 973, full name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad aš-Šaʿrānī عبد الوهاب ابن احمد الشعرانى) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism known as Šaʿrawiyyah. Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a 13th-century treatise on medical substances, Muẖtaṣar taḏkirat as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb[1]
The Šaʿrawiyyah order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century.
References
- ^ Muẖtaṣar taḏkirat as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb / lil Imām aš-Šhaʿrānī ; wa bihāmišihā taḏkirat aš-Šayẖ Aḥmad al-Qalyūbī fī l-ṭibb, Cairo, 1302 [1885]/1316 [1899]; MS A 45 in the US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
- C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL), 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889–1936), vol. 2, pp. 335–8.
- M. Winter, 'Shaʿrānī' in Gibbs et al. (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, 11 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960–2002), vol. 9, p. 316.
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