The Gardens of the Gnostics

Ab? Zakariyy? Mu?yi'd-d?n Ya?y? ibn Sharaf an-Nawaw? (631 AH/1233 CE - 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith, Ash'ar? kal?m and the Sh?fi'? madhhab, noted for his commentary on ?a??? Muslim, his collection of Forty Hadith, the Riy?? a?-??li??n, the Adhk?r, which is a collection of [...]
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Ab? Zakariyy? Mu?yi'd-d?n Ya?y? ibn Sharaf an-Nawaw? (631 AH/1233 CE - 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith, Ash'ar? kal?m and the Sh?fi'? madhhab, noted for his commentary on ?a??? Muslim, his collection of Forty Hadith, the Riy?? a?-??li??n, the Adhk?r, which is a collection of dhikr and du'? from the Qur'?n and the hadith, and a number of other significant works.The Garden of the Gnostics (Bust?n al-'?rif?n) is Imam an-Nawaw?'s work on ta?awwuf, drawing as is his wont on the Qur'?n, with careful choice of hadith, and the sayings of the first generations (salaf) and eminent later people.Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism, often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley, notably The Noble Qur'an - a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English; Muhammad, Messenger of Allah - the translation of Q??? 'Iy??'s ash-Shif?'; the Muwa??a' of Imam M?lik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawaw?'s Riy?? a?-??li??n.