Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ohlander, Erik S.
Leiden
Brill
(1,749 words)
Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAṭiyya al-Ḥārithī al-ʿAjamī al-Makkī (d. 386/996) was an ascetic, a Ṣūfī, a preacher, and author of the Qūt al-qulūb fī muʿāmalat al-maḥbūb wa-waṣf ṭarīq al-murīd ilā maqām al-tawḥīd ("Nourishment of the hearts in relations with the beloved and a description of the path of the aspirant to the station of divine unicity"), an encyclopaedic manual of Ṣūfī piety that influenced a number of notable Ṣūfīs of subsequent generations. Born into a family hailing from the