Abū l-Mawāhib al-Shādhilī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Geoffroy, Eric
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Abū l-Mawāhib Muḥammad b. Zaghdān al-Shādhilī (820-82/1417-77) was an Egyptian author and Ṣūfī. Born in Tunis, he studied the Malikī school of Islamic law and Islamic sciences at Jāmiʿ al-Zaytūna, the celebrated mosque-university in Tunis. At the age of twenty-two, he settled in Cairo in the vicinity of al-Azhar, where he studied ḥadīth with Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (773-852/1372-1449) and adopted Ṣūfism as a shaykh of the Wafāʾī lineage, which is the Cairene branch of the Shādhiliyya order (