Debate, Dialogue and Diversity in Sufism (edd. Tonaga Yasushi & Fujii Chiaki), Kyoto Kenan Rifai Sufi Studies Series 4, Kyoto Univ., Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, 2021, p. 115-155, 2021
One of the Sino-Arabic manuscripts of the Huasi Menhuan in Linxia, Gansu, includes a license that... more One of the Sino-Arabic manuscripts of the Huasi Menhuan in Linxia, Gansu, includes a license that the Arab Sufi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAqīla al-Makkī (d. 1150/1737) issued to Ma Laichi 马来迟 Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ṣīnī (1681–1766). The ijāza authorized Ma Laichi to propagate Islam in China through the interpretation of the Naqshbandiyya order. The Arabic manuscript confirms the claim of the transmission of spiritual knowledge from ʿAqīla to Laichi as is implied by the inclusion of their names among the authorities mentioned in various liturgical texts of the Ṭarīqa al-Huasi. This article offers a short discussion of the ijāza and considers other Sufi texts reported to have been transmitted by ʿAqīla to his Chinese disciple. In addition to trying to identify the contents of the textual transmission, this article aims to show that the study of Sino-Arabic manuscript culture can deepen our understanding of Chinese Sufism.
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