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The sources behind the life story

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ملاحظة بخصوص المراجع والمصادر · Read the complete Arabic source

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In addition to various histories, biographical dictionaries and works recording deaths, this book relies principally on the pearls we have gathered from the ocean of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya. There the Greatest Master relates many events that occurred during his different journeys. Next, the treatise Ruh al-Quds fi Munasahat al-Nafs is a fundamental source for anyone wishing to study his life, because he mentions many of the teachers with whom he interacted, whose biographies we often cannot find in other books.

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بالإضافة إلى كتب التاريخ المختلفة وكتب الرجال والوفيات، فإن اعتمادنا في هذا الكتاب كان بشكل أساسي على الدرر التي التقطناها من بحر “الفتوحات المكيّة”، الذي ذكر فيه الشيخ الأكبر الكثير من الحوادث التي مرّ بها في أسفاره المختلفة. بعد ذلك فإن رسالة “روح القدس في مناصحة النفس” تُعتبر مرجعاً أساسياً لكلّ من يريد دراسة حياة الشيخ الأكبر لأنه ذكر فيها العديد من شيوخه الذين تعامل معهم والذين كثيرا ما لا نجد تعريفهم في الكتب الأخرى.

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