Abu cAbd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami (d.412/1021)
lived in the 3rd and 4th century AH / 9th and 10th century CE. He
was born in the city of Nishapur, one of the most renowned cities
in the Islamic world. He was part of a line of earlier Sufi figures
who attempted to defend the cardinal tenets of Sufism from
accusations of heresy. However al-Sulami's surpassed his
predecessors by amassing a corpus of antecedent mystical dicta from
the architects of Islamic mysticism and substantiating them with
transmission channels (isnad) or grounding them in a core teaching
of the Prophet Muhammad. This study demonstrates that al-Sulami was
an accomplished mystic. It outlines his life and times and surveys
in full all his works as far as they can be identified. Moreover,
the important sources that shaped the development and impression of
his thinking and modality of transforming the ego-self (nafs) are
presented in detail bringing together earlier and current academic
scholarship on him.
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