This first English translation of one of the most famous Islamic prayers has become available in this bilingual edition. This prayer, recited by Muslims throughout the world, is a prayer to ask for blessings upon the Prophet in order to receive blessings from God for both the Prophet and the reciter.
Guide to Goodness (Dalail al-khayrat)
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Translator
Andrey (Hassan) Rosowsky
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About the author
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli: Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (d. 870 AH / 1465 CE) was a Moroccan saint and Sufi guide of the Shadhili tradition, best known as the compiler of Dalaʾil al-Khayrat (The Waymarks of Benefits), the most beloved and widely transmitted collection of litanies invoking blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad. A Berber of the Jazula tribe of the Sus, the region between the Atlantic and the Atlas mountains, he was born in the early ninth century AH and traveled to Fes for his studies, lodging in one of its madrasas. He took the Shadhili path, spent many years in seclusion, and afterward settled in the Moroccan south, where his zawiya drew large numbers of followers and became a center of devotion and renewal of love for the Prophet. He followed the Maliki school in law, as was customary across the Maghrib. Dalaʾil al-Khayrat spread from Morocco across the Muslim world, copied in countless manuscripts and recited daily in mosques and homes from West Africa to the Indian subcontinent and the Ottoman lands. Al-Jazuli died at Afughal, where reports hold that he was poisoned during the dawn prayer. Roughly seventy years later his body was transferred to Marrakesh by the Saadian ruler Ahmad al-Aʿraj, and he came to be counted among the Seven Saints of Marrakesh, his mausoleum a long-standing site of visitation.
About the editor
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Born in Tehran in 1933, Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a scholar of Islamic philosophy, science, and Sufism, and a prominent representative of the perennialist or traditionalist school of thought. He studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and went on to Harvard, taking a master's in geology and geophysics and a doctorate in the history of science in 1958. Returning to Iran, he became a full professor at Tehran University while still in his early thirties, later serving as dean, vice-chancellor, and founding president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy. After the events of 1979 he emigrated to the United States, teaching at Temple University and, from 1984, as University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. His many works include An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines, Science and Civilization in Islam, Three Muslim Sages, and Knowledge and the Sacred, the last drawn from the Gifford Lectures he delivered at Edinburgh in 1980 to 1981. Shaped intellectually by the writings of René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Frithjof Schuon, he has written on metaphysics, cosmology, the environment, and the relation between religion and the order of nature. He served as editor-in-chief of The Study Quran (HarperOne, 2015), a single-volume translation with continuous commentary drawing on the classical Sunni and Shiʿi traditions.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781930637269
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
The Great Books of The Islamic World
Author
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli
Pages
152
Translator
Andrey (Hassan) Rosowsky
Editor
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Year Published
2001
Size
W-6 in | H-9 in | D-0.5 in
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