The Gardens of the Gnostics

<p>Abū Zakariyyā Muḥyi’d-dīn Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf an-Nawawī (631 AH/1233 CE – 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith <em>Ash‘arī kalām</em> and the Shāfi‘ī madhhab noted for his commentary on <em>Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim</em> his collection of Forty Hadith the <em>Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn</em> the <em>Adhkār</em> which is a collection of dhikr and <em>du‘ā</em> from the Qur’ān and the hadith and a number of other significant works.</p><p><em>The Garden of the Gnostics (Bustān al-‘Ārifīn)</em> is Imam an-Nawawī’s work on <em>taṣawwuf</em> drawing as is his wont on the Qur’ān with careful choice of hadith and the sayings of the first generations (<em>salaf</em>) and eminent later people.</p><p>Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley notably <em>The Noble Qur’an – a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English</em>; <em>Muhammad Messenger of Allah</em> – the translation of Qāḍī ‘Iyāḍ’s <em>ash-Shifā’</em>; the <em>Muwaṭṭa’</em> of Imam Mālik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawawī’s <em>Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn</em>.</p>