The Generations · The Friends of God
quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified
539 – 632 AH / 1145 – 1234
Nephew of Abu Najib and author of the ʿAwarif al-Maʿarif, the great handbook of the Sufi path, which spread the order east and west.
His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.
