This book presents several "firsts." It is the first English translation of works attributed to Abu Madyan, a seminal figure of Sufism in Muslim Spain and North Africa. The Arabic text accompanying the English translation also represents the first scholarly edition of these works in the original language. Previous Arabic editions of Abu Madyan’s poems and aphorisms appeared only in the form of uncritical devotional literature. Nearly all of the texts contained in this book were taken from manuscript copies found in North Africa and Europe.

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