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Ahmad Zarruq
Ahmad Zarruq also known as Imam az-Zarrūq ash Shadhili (Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsa) (1442–1493 CE) was a Sunni, Ashari Muslim scholar and Sufi sheikh from Fes, Morocco. He is considered one of the most prominent and accomplished legal, theoretical, and spiritual scholars in Islamic history, and is thought by some to have been the renewer of his time (mujaddid). He was also the first to be given the honorific title "Regulator of the Scholars and Saints"
untitled fahrasa and "Fawa'id min Kunnash", the second being edited in its Arabic version. Selected passages appear in translation in: Zarruq the Sufi: a Guide in the Way and a Leader to the Truth by Ali Fahmi Khushaim (Tripoli, Libya:General Company for Publication, 1976)
Bibliography.
- Scott Alan Kugle, "Rebel Between Spirit And Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, And Authority in Islam", Indiana University Press, 2006,
- Ali Fahmi Khashim, "Zarruq, the Sufi