Richard J. A. McGregor is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vanderbilt University.

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Note on Transliteration

Introduction

1. Tirmidhi, Ibn 'Arabi, and Others on Sanctity

Tirmidhi on Walaya
Sahl Tustari on Walaya
Lesser Treatments of Walaya
Walaya and Shi'ism
Ibn 'Arabi and Walaya

2. The Early Shadhiliyya and Sanctity

Literature and History of the Shadhiliyya
Al-Shadhili, Tirmidhi, and Ibn 'Arabi
The Early Figures of the Order
The Writings of Ibn Bakhila
Proximity to the Divine
The Levels of Walaya
Sanctity and Prophecy

3. The Wafa'iyya in Time and Space

Arriving from the Maghreb
Among the Elite of Cairo

4. The Writings of the Wafa's

Poetry
Supplications (du'a)
Jurisprudence (fiqh) and Exegesis (tafsir)
Mystical Treatises (Muhammad Wafa')
Mystical Treatises ('Ali Wafa')

5. Sanctity and Muhammad Wafa'

Absolute Being and Its Self-disclosure
The Preexistential and the Everlasting
Spiritual Anthropology
Cosmology
The Teaching Shaykh and Beyond
The Muhammadan Reality and the Pole
Sanctity, the Renewer, and the Seal

6. Sanctity according to 'Ali Wafa'

Divine Oneness, Self-disclosure, and Creation
The Teacher and Oneness
On Walaya and Nubuwwa
The Seal of Sainthood
The Seal and the Renewer of Religion

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index