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Acknowledgments The research for this book has received financial support from the following institutions: the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the J. W. McConnell Foundation (Canada); and the Ministère de l’éducation nationale, de la recherche et de la technologie (France). My thanks are extended to the various institutions that made their manuscript archives available to me. They are the following: al-Maktaba al-Azhariyya (Cairo); Dår al-Kutub al-Mißriyya (Cairo); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Germany); Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek (Sweden); Bibliothèque Nationale (France); Library of the India Office (England); Leiden University (the Netherlands). In Canada my research has benfitted from numerous services provided by the Islamic Studies Library at McGill University. The Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (Cairo) has supported my work in a number of ways over the last few years in the true spirit of academic enterprise. I would also like to acknowledge my debt to Dr. Hermann Landolt. I hope I have inherited something from the intellectual tradition he represents. Earlier sections of this research have appeared as “Being and Knowing According to a 14th century Cairene Mystic” Annales Islamologiques 32 (2002); “New Sources for the Study of Sufism in Mamluk Egypt” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 65,2 (2002); and “The Concept of Sainthood According to Ibn Båkhila; a Shådhil• Shaykh of the 8th/14th century” in Le saint et son milieu ou comment lire les sources hagiographiques? R. Chih and D. Gril eds. (Cairo: I.F.A.O., 2000). ...

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