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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Transliteration xiii Introduction 1 1. Tirmidh•, Ibn >Arab•, and Others on Sanctity 9 Tirmidh• on Walåya Sahl Tustar• on Walåya Lesser Treatments of Walåya Walåya and Sh•>ism Ibn >Arab• and Walåya 2. The Early Shådhiliyya and Sanctity 27 Literature and History of the Shådhiliyya Al-Shådhil•, Tirmidh•, and Ibn >Arab• The Early Figures of the Order The Writings of Ibn Båkhilå Proximity to the Divine The Levels of Walåya Sanctity and Prophecy 3. The Wafå’iyya in Time and Space 49 Arriving from the Maghreb Among the Elite of Cairo 4. The Writings of the Wafå’s 71 Poetry Supplications (du>å) Jurisprudence (fiqh) and Exegesis (tafs•r) Mystical Treatises (Mu˙ammad Wafå’) Mystical Treatises (>Al• Wafå’) 5. Sanctity and Mu˙ammad Wafå’ 89 Absolute Being and Its Self-disclosure The Preexistential and the Everlasting Spiritual Anthropology Cosmology The Teaching Shaykh and Beyond The Mu˙ammadan Reality and the Pole Sanctity, the Renewer, and the Seal 6. Sanctity according to >Al• Wafå’ 119 Divine Oneness, Self-disclosure, and Creation The Teacher and Oneness On Walåya and Nubuwwa The Seal of Sainthood The Seal and the Renewer of Religion Conclusion 157 Notes 163 Bibliography 219 Indexes 239 viii Contents ...

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