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Presented here are five texts by al-Sayyid al-Sharıf ‘Alı ibn Muhammad al- Jurjanı dealing with the Sufi doctrine of wahdat al-wujud or the unity of existence.

It is in the third century after the hijrah that mysticism first begins to flourish in the Islamic world. This is the century which produced such great mystics as al-Muḥāsibī, al-Junayd, Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī and al-Ḥallāj. To this century also belongs al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, who, although perhaps less well known than the others, ...