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Şaranî

Egyptian Muslim scholar · Writers · Lived 1491 to 1565 · aged 74

Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani was a highly influential Egyptian scholar. He was an eminent jurist, traditionist, historian, mystic and theologian. He was one of the Islamic revivalists and scholastic saints of the sixteenth century.

Şaranî is read about 49 times a day, in 11 languages.

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He is credited for reviving Islam and is one of the most prolific writers of the early Egyptian-Ottoman period. His legal, spiritual, and theological writings are still widely read in the Muslim world today. He is regarded as "one of the last original thinkers in Islam." He was the founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism, eponymously known as Šaʿrāwiyyah. The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century.

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1491 to 1565 · aged 74