Autobiography of a Moroccan Sufi Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba [1747 - 1809],9781887752206

Autobiography of a Moroccan Sufi Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba [1747 - 1809]

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ISBN13: 9781887752206
ISBN10: 188775220X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher(s): Fons Vitae
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Summary

Ibn 'Ajiba wrote his "fahrasa," or autobiography, not for the pleasure of talking about himself but "to celebrate God's kindness." It details his travels in search of both secular and spiritual knowledge, his entrance on a Sufi path strongly based within the Islamic tradition, and the social, intellectual, and spiritual struggles he encountered. This new English translation by David Streight is based on a contemporary French translation from the Arabic by the Swiss scholar Jean-Louis Michon.

Author Biography

Ibn 'Ajiba was an 18th century Moroccan saint of the Darqawi Sufi lineage; he wrote to lead disciples in their search for both secular and spiritual knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(28)
Prolegomenon 35(2)
On Our Ancestors and On What Concerns Our Genealogy
37(12)
Birth and Early Education
49(3)
My Beginnings in the Study of Exoteric Knowledge
52(6)
Regarding What We Use as a Basis to Report the Words of the Prophet (Hadith) and Canonical Teachings (Fiqh), Going Back to the Time of the Prophet
58(4)
Regarding the Licenses Received from Our Teachers
62(3)
On the Works That We Have Composed With the Help of God and His Strength
65(4)
On Our Orientation Toward Devotional Practice and Exclusive Concentration on Adoration
69(7)
On Our Passig to Esoteric Knowledge
76(4)
How We Served the Shaykh By Paying Personally and With Our Goods
80(4)
Regarding the Wandering We Did in Our Beginnings to Practice and Teach Dikr
84(5)
Regarding the States We Experienced in Our Progress and the Trials Encountered on the Way to Deliverance
89(6)
On What I Underwent in Prison and My Departure from My Homeland
95(6)
Regarding Our Supports on the Sufi Way, up to the Prophet
101(10)
Regarding Shaykhs and Other People Who Have Borne Witness to Our Special Qualities
111(7)
Regarding Spiritual and Sensorial Charisms That We Have Witnessed
118(6)
On Those Who Have Received from Us the Way of Prophetic Initiation, Fuqara-c Retired from the World or Living in the World
124(3)
Regarding Women We Have Married and the Children that Have Resulted from These Marriages
127(14)
Regarding What We Have Acquired in the Matter of Exoteric and Esoteric Sciences
141(23)
Regarding Words and Bits of Wisdom Which God Has Made Run Through Our Tongue, in Verse and in Prose
164(16)
Appendix 1. 180(1)
Appendix 2. 181(1)
Appendix 3. 182(3)
Appendix 4. 185(1)
Index of the Principal Names of People and Places, of Technical Terms and Works Cited 186

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