|
|
English edition
200 pp.
Paperback
15X23 cm
$24.95
LE 140.00
ISBN
978 188 775 220 6
For sale only in the Middle East
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Autobiography of a Moroccan Sufi Saint
|
E-mail to a friend
Print
|
Ahmad Ibn ‘Ajiba
Translated by
Jean Louis Michon
David Streight
Ibn Ajiba, an 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawi Sufi lineage, wrote his fahrasa , or autobiography, not for the pleasure of talking about himself but “to celebrate God's kindness” by informing others of the graces bestowed on him. This account details Ibn Ajiba's 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 that such a search entailed. He spent time in prison, and time in ecstasy.
Long unavailable to Western readers, this new English translation by David Streight is based on the contemporary French version by Jean-Louis Michon, a longtime scholar of Islamic culture and traditional ideas in the North African country where Ibn Aijba lived and taught.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
