Al-malaybari's Branches Of Faith
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Paperback/English
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Description
This booklet presents an English translation of Shu'ab al-iman (Branches of Faith) by Shaykh Zayn al-Din ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad al-Malaybari (872-928 AH/1467-1522 CE), itself an Arabic translation and condensation of the Persian Shu'ab al-iman by Nur al-Din Muhammad al-Iji. The translation before the reader is thus a translation of a translation - or more precisely, an English rendering of a condensed Arabic rendering of a Persian original. The work identifies seventy-seven branches of faith derived