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شرح المقدمات

Sharh al-Muqaddimat

Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi(Auth.) · Anas b. Muhammad Adnan al-Sharafawi (Ed.)
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Sharh al-Muqaddimat is Imam al-Sanusi's auto-commentary on his Muqaddimat — the introductory preliminaries that open his graduated curriculum of Ashari kalam.

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Sharh al-Muqaddimat is Imam al-Sanusi's auto-commentary on his Muqaddimat — the introductory preliminaries that open his graduated curriculum of Ashari kalam. The Muqaddimat establish the rational preliminaries of the discipline: the division of the rational into the necessary (wajib), the impossible (mustahil), and the possible (jaiz); the methods of reasoned proof; the relation between reason and revelation. The commentary opens each of these for the beginning student and prepares him to enter the al-Aqida al-Sughra (Umm al-Barahin) proper.

About The Author

Imam Abu Abd Allah Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Sanusi (832-895 AH / 1427-1490 CE) was a Tlemceni Maliki scholar whose creedal works became the standard aqida curriculum of the Maliki-Ashari world.

عن الكتاب

"شرح المقدمات" شرحُ الإمام السنوسي على متن "المقدمات" — المقدمات العقلية الأولى لمنهجه المتدرّج في الكلام الأشعري. تُؤَسِّس المقدّماتُ القواعدَ العقلية: تَقْسيم المعقول إلى واجب ومستحيل وجائز، ومناهج الاستدلال، وعلاقة العقل بالنقل. يَفُكُّ الشرحُ هذه المعاني للمبتدئ، ويُهَيِّئُه لِدخول العقيدة الصغرى (أمّ البراهين).

عن المؤلف

الإمام أبو عبد الله محمد بن يوسف السنوسي (٨٣٢-٨٩٥ هـ) عالم مالكي تلمساني، صارت كتبُه العَقَدية منهجَ العقيدة المعتمد في عالم المالكية الأشعرية.

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About the author

Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi: Al-Sanusi (832-895 AH, 1428-1490 CE) was a theologian, jurist, and Sufi who lived his whole life in Tlemcen, in what is now western Algeria, and is counted among the most influential Ashʿari authorities of the post-classical Maghrib. Honored by later tradition as a saint and renewer, he was Ashʿari in creed and Maliki in law. His abiding concern was pedagogical, to make sound belief accessible to ordinary Muslims, not only scholars, by grounding each article of faith in clear rational proof rather than mere transmission. He is best known for a graded series of creeds calibrated to different levels of student, from the longer al-ʿAqida al-Kubra and al-Wusta down to the short al-Sughra and the brief al-Sughra al-Sughra. The al-Sughra, famous as Umm al-Barahin (Mother of Proofs), became one of the most taught theological texts in the Muslim world, studied from West Africa to Southeast Asia and still in seminary use today. Al-Sanusi wrote his own commentaries on these creeds, and his works generated a vast tradition of glosses and super-commentaries. The titles gathered here, including the commentaries on the Sughra, the Wusta, the Muqaddimat, and Wasitat al-Suluk, alongside the multi-volume Silsila al-ʿAqdiyya, reflect that enduring teaching legacy in systematic Ashʿari theology and creed.

About the editor

Anas b. Muhammad Adnan al-Sharafawi: Anas b. Muhammad Adnan al-Sharafawi is a contemporary Damascene scholar and muhaqqiq (verifier and editor of classical texts) whose work centers on the disciplines of creed, logic, and Sufism. He teaches within the Ash'ari tradition in theology, giving lessons on 'aqida and logic, among them al-Bayjuri's celebrated gloss on the Jawharat al-Tawhid, and he is active in transmitting these foundational sciences to students. He has prepared more than fifty critical editions, the bulk of them for Dar al-Taqwa in Damascus and several flagship titles for Dar al-Minhaj, the Jeddah and Beirut house known for high-quality editions of Shafi'i and Ash'ari texts. For Dar al-Minhaj he edited al-Qushayri's al-Risala al-Qushayriyya, the most widely circulated classical manual of Sufism, and Imam al-Ghazali's al-Iqtisad fi al-I'tiqad, a key statement of Ash'ari theology. His other verified editions include al-Sanusi's Umm al-Barahin (al-'Aqida al-Sughra), al-Bayhaqi's al-I'tiqad wa al-Hidaya ila Sabil al-Rashad, and Ibn 'Abbad's commentary on the Hikam of Ibn 'Ata' Allah. His editions are appreciated for careful collation of manuscripts and a clear, accessible layout that serves both seminary students and general readers approaching the classical literature of theology and the spiritual path.

Specifications
Binding Hardback
Publisher Dar al-Taqwa (Arabic)
Author Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi
Pages 304
Editor Anas b. Muhammad Adnan al-Sharafawi
Year Published 2019
Size W- | H- | D-
Number of Volumes 1
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