Shaʿrānī
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ʿAbdul Wahhab Shaʿrani was an Egyptian Hanafi
scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism
known as .
Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a 13th-century treatise on medical substances,
The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century.
Hanafi
The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...
scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism
Sufism
Sufism or ' is defined by its adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a '...
known as .
Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a 13th-century treatise on medical substances,
The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century.