Autobiography of a Moroccan Sufi: Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba '1747 - 1809', Paperback

Contributor(s):

• Author: Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Ajibah
• Author: Ibn Ajiba
• Translator: Jean Louis Michon

Ibn Ajiba, an 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawi Sufi lineage, wrote his fahrasa or autobiography not for the pleasure of talking about himself but to celebrate God's kindness by informing others of the graces bestowed on him. This account details Ibn Ajiba's travels in search of both secular and spiritual knowledge; his entrance on a Sufi path strongly based within the Islamic tradition; and the social, intellectual, and spiritual struggles that such a search entailed. He spent time in prison, and time in ecstasy.