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Sharh Futuh al-Ghaib: Commentary on Revelations of the Unseen Concerning The Discourses of Shaikh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
Sharh Futuh al-Ghaib: Commentary on Revelations of the Unseen Concerning The Discourses of Shaikh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani
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Muhtar Holland
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"This is a commentary by the famous Imam on the Futuh al-Ghaib, a collection of 78 discourses by Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. In it is to be found the clear approval that the Imam had for the Sufi path, provided that the commandments of the Sacred Law (Shari'a) are faithfully observed. In it Ibn Taimiyya extols several of the great Sufi saints (awliya'), and elucidates many of the discourses of Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir.
This may surprise those who have been informed that Imam ibn Taimiyya was opposed to Sufism and was hostile to it. It is a fact that the Imam himself was a sufi, having taken the cloak (khirqa) of the Qadiris from Abi ibn Qudama who received it from Imam Muwaffaq ibn Qudama. As he said himself, 'There are but two between me and Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir,' "
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Ibn Taymiyya: Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyya (661-728 AH / 1263-1328 CE) was a Hanbali jurist, theologian, and one of the most prolific and contested writers of the later medieval period. He was born in Harran into a family of established Hanbali scholars. When the Mongols threatened the region, his family fled to Damascus, where his father directed the Sukkariyya madrasa. Ibn Taymiyya memorized the Qurʾan early, studied widely across law, hadith, theology, and the rational sciences, and took over his father's teaching post at twenty-one. He was Hanbali in law and well known for his criticism of much of the speculative theology (kalam) of his time, calling for a return to the Qurʾan, the Sunna, and the understanding of the early generations (the salaf). Outspoken and often confrontational, he was drawn into repeated disputes over creed and practice and was imprisoned several times in Damascus, Cairo, and Alexandria. He died in 728 AH / 1328 CE while confined in the citadel of Damascus. His writings, including treatises on worship and the inner life such as Al-ʿUbudiyya, have been widely translated and remain influential, though his positions have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly debate.
About the translator
Muhtar Holland: Muhtar Holland (1935-2010 CE) was an English translator whose patient, faithful renderings opened a large body of classical Islamic literature to English readers. He was born in the city of Durham in northeast England and was drawn from school onward to the study of languages, reading Arabic and Turkish at Oxford and learning Russian during national service in the Royal Navy. He embraced Islam in 1969, taking the name Muhtar, after a period connected to the Subud movement.\n\nOver the following decades he held academic and research positions at the University of Toronto, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (with a period studying Islamic law in Cairo), and Universiti Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur, and he served as a senior research fellow at the Islamic Foundation in Leicester and as director of a translation center in New York.\n\nHis most enduring contribution was an extensive series of translations of the discourses and writings of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, among them Revelations of the Unseen (Futuh al-Ghaib), The Sublime Revelation (al-Fath al-Rabbani), Utterances (Malfuzat), and The Removal of Cares (Jalaʾ al-Khawatir). He also translated treatises of al-Ghazali, including works on inner worship and the celebrated Deliverance from Error. Shaykh Nuh Keller described him as a translator's translator, and many regarded him as foremost among English renderers of these texts. He died on 5 November 2010 in New Jersey.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781882216291
Publisher
Al-Baz Publishing
Author
Ibn Taymiyya
Pages
101
Translator
Muhtar Holland
Year Published
2010
Size
W-5.9 in | H-9 in | D-0.2 in
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