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عَبْد الْوَهَّاب الشَّعْرَانِي

ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ash-Shaʿrānī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

898 – 973 AH / 1493 – 1565

his portrait is written, not drawn

The saint-scholar of Cairo, author of the great Ṭabaqāt of the Sufis, who defended the friends of Allah to the jurists.

stationWalī
born898 AH
returned973 AH

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.