Ibn Ataillah al-Iskandari
(’Ibn ‘Aṭā’illāh al-’Iskandarī)
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(name) Sufi saint (male), died 1309. |
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An early master of the Shādhiliyah order. Author of the well-known collection of Sufi apothegms the Kitāb al-Ḥikam (“Book of Wisdom”). |
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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt) |
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