al-ʿArabī, Muḥammad Nūr al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Waugh, Earle H.
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Muḥammad Nūr al-Dīn al-ʿArabī (1813-87) was a Turkish saint who left a lasting impression on the Balkans and Macedonia. Originally from Egypt, where he went by the name of Muḥammad ʿArab Khūja (later, in Albanian, Muhamet Arab Hoxha), he spent his early years in the study of the great mystic Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) of Andalusian origin; he was later influenced by the mystical connections between the Hesychastic meditations of Balkan Orthodox Christianity and Ṣūfism, especially the movement associated with Shaykh Badr al-Dīn of Samavna (