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Mawlay Al-'Arabi Ad-Darqawi Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley

The Darqawi Way

Letters from the Shaykh to the fuqara'

Mawlay Al-'Arabi Ad-Darqawi,  Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley

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Diwan Press
22 September 2025
Sufism & Islamic mysticism
These letters from one of the greatest shaykhs of sufism to his pupils, are a constant source of renewal and inspiration to the wayfarer.

This work is used in the circles of the Darqawi way not only in Morocco but across North Africa, as well as at Darqawi zawiyyas in England, the United States, Argentina, Spain, Malaysia and Makkah. It serves as a very vivid and clear introduction to the great masterwork of sufic science, The Meaning of Man, whose author was Sidi Ali al-Jamal the Master of Shaykh ad-Darqawi.
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Imprint:   Diwan Press
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 111mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   408g
ISBN:   9781914397578
ISBN 10:   1914397576
Pages:   402
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Shaykh Mawlay al-'Arabi ad-Darqawi (1159AH/1745CE - 1239AH/1825CE)Mawlay al-'Arabi ad-Darqawi revitalised the Shadhili tariqa and spread tasawwuf in North Africa. He trained and authorised thousands of others who were qualified to take seekers by the hand, by the permission of Allah, glorious is He. Among the most influential of his later followers are Shaykh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-'Alawi of Mustaghanem, Algeria, Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib of Meknes, Morocco and Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi. The tariqa spread by means of them and others to Syria, Jordan, Palestine, the US, Canada, Europe, Malaysia, Indonesia. Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, Shaykh Muhammad al-Ya'qubi are other highly influential shaykhs of the Darqawi tariqa. Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism, often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley, notably The Noble Qur'an - a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English; Muhammad, Messenger of Allah - the translation of Qāḍī 'Iyāḍ's ash-Shifā'; the Muwaṭṭa' of Imam Mālik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawawī's Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn. She is the author of a number of books including Democratic Tyranny and the Islamic Paradigm and Islam the Empowering of Women.

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