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 أحمد الشعرانى) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism known as Šaʿrāwiyyah. Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a 13th-century treatise on medical substances, Muẖtaṣar taḏkira-t as-Suwaydī fī l-ṭibb^[1]

The Šaʿrāwiyyah order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century.

References

• 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.