Miftah Al-Jannah: Key to the Garden
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Mostafa al-Badawi
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About The Book
The first Muslim Testimony of Faith (Shahāda), “There is no deity but God,” is the essence and the highest principle of Islam. Key to the Garden is a multi-faceted exposition of how the whole spectrum of Islamic thought and worship unfolds from those few words.
The first part of the book deals with the basic beliefs of Islam, the second with aspects of the faith that are widely misunderstood, and the third provides guidance for those wishing to tread the spiritual path. Dr Mostafa Badawi’s fluent English translation, first published in 1990, and its annotations and appendices have been extensively revised for this new edition.
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About the author
Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad: Habib Ahmad Mashhur ibn Taha al-Haddad (rahimahullah) was born in 1907 at Qaydun in the Hadramawt valley of Yemen, a descendant of the Prophet ﷺ and a luminary of the Ba'Alawi tradition. He was both a leading exponent of the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence and a master of the Sufi science of spiritual realization (tahqiq), following and teaching the way of Imam Abd Allah ibn Alawi al-Haddad and other illustrious predecessors. His early studies took him to Qaydun, Tarim, and for a period to Indonesia, where he sat with numerous shaykhs. For several decades thereafter, he devoted himself to spreading Islam across remote regions of East Africa, based mainly in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. He also spent a number of years in Uganda, where tens of thousands of people came to or returned to Islam at his hands. In later life he divided his time between Jeddah and Mombasa until age made travel impossible. He passed away in Jeddah on December 6, 1995, and was buried in a cemetery near Makka. Among his most celebrated works is 'Miftah al-Janna' (Key to the Garden), a widely read classic of the Hadrami-Ba'Alawi spiritual tradition.
About the translator
Mostafa al-Badawi: Mostafa al-Badawi (b. 1948 CE, Cairo) is one of the leading contemporary translators of classical Islamic texts from Arabic into English, and a scholar associated with the Ba ʿAlawi sayyids of Hadramawt in Yemen. He graduated from Cairo University Medical School in 1971 and completed his postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, where he has practiced as a consultant psychiatrist and is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Alongside his medical career he pursued a serious study of the Islamic sciences and of the spiritual path of the Ba ʿAlawi tradition. He is best known for his translations of the prose works of Imam ʿAbdallah ibn ʿAlawi al-Haddad, the great Hadrami sage and poet, including The Book of Assistance, Gifts for the Seeker, Counsels of Religion, and The Lives of Man. His translation work also extends to The Degrees of the Soul of Shaykh al-Shabrawi and Key to the Garden of Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. As an author in his own right, he wrote Sufi Sage of Arabia, a full biography of Imam al-Haddad drawing on the life and teachings of seventeenth-century Yemen, and Man and the Universe, among other studies. He is regarded as a careful, faithful translator who has made the devotional and ethical literature of the Ba ʿAlawi masters accessible to a wide English readership.
About the editor
Muhammad Isa Waley: Muhammad Isa Waley is a British scholar of Islamic manuscripts and Sufi literature, best known for a long curatorial career at one of the world's great repositories of Islamic texts. For some forty-five years he served as Curator for Persian and Turkish, beginning at the British Museum and continuing at the British Library in London. He earned his doctorate on the poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi, and his scholarly interests center on two areas: the classical verse and prose literature of Islamic spirituality in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish, and the paleography, codicology, illumination, and cataloging of manuscripts in Arabic script. His published work reflects both strands. As editor he oversaw the English Tafsir al-Jalalayn and Imam al-Nawawi's Kitab al-Adhkar (The Book of Remembrances), and he contributed to Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script. As translator he rendered Jami's forty-hadith collection Chihil Kalima and the Mawlid of Imam al-Barzanji into English. He has also lectured widely on the study and importance of Islamic manuscripts for research into Islamic literature and culture. His more recent A Treasury of Rumi gathers selections from the poet who has occupied him since his earliest research, bringing a lifetime of textual scholarship to a wider readership.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781939256089
Publisher
Ihya Publishing
Author
Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad
Pages
218
Translator
Mostafa al-Badawi
Editor
Muhammad Isa Waley
Year Published
2023
Size
W- | H- | D-
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