Islamic Spirituality/Sufism
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New Ibn 'Ajiba Complete 2026 Collection (20% discounted) (5 books)

New Ibn ‘Ajiba Complete 2026 Collection (20% discounted) (5 books)

Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba
Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald, Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk

Original price was: $130.75.Current price is: $98.95.

Fons Vitae is for the first time making available all it’s titles by Sidi ‘Ahmad Ibn ‘Ajiba in one discounted collection! The Fons Vitae Ibn ‘Ajiba Complete Collection includes 5 titles:

  1. The Book of Ascension to the Essential Truths of Sufism: A lexicon of Sufic terminology compiled by Ahmad ibn ‘Ajiba (Original price: $26.95)
  2. The Chapters of Mary and Ta Ha from the Immense Ocean – Quranic Commentary of Ibn Ajiba (Original price: $24.95)
  3. The Immense Ocean: Selections from Ibn Ajiba’s commentary on the Qur’an (Original price: $26.95)
  4. Two Sufi Commentaries (on the Shadhili tradition) by Ahmad Ibn Ajiba (Original price: $26.95)
  5. The Autobiography of a Moroccan Soufi: Ahmad Ibn Ajiba (Original price: $24.95)

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī (Arabic: أحمد بن عجيبة; 1747) was an influential 18th-century Moroccan scholar and poet in the Sunni Darqawa Sufi lineage. He was born of a sharif family in the Anjra tribe that ranges from Tangiers to Tetuan along the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. As a child he developed a love of religious knowledge, memorizing the Qur’an and studying subjects ranging from Classical Arabic grammar, religious ethics, poetry, Qur’anic recitation and tafsir.

When he reached the age of eighteen, he left home and undertook the study of exoteric knowledge in Qasr al-Kabir under the supervision of Sidi Muhammad al-Susi al-Samlali. It was here that he was introduced to studies in the sciences, art, philosophy, law and Qur’anic exegesis in depth. He went to Fes to study with Mohammed al-Tawudi ibn Suda, Bennani, and El-Warzazi, and joined the new Darqawiyya in 1208 AH (1793), of which he was the representative in the northern part of the Jbala region. He spent nearly his entire life in and around Tetuan, and died of the plague in 1224 AH (1809). He is the author of over thirty works, including an autobiography, al-Fahrasa, which provides interesting information concerning the intellectual center that Tetuan had become by the beginning of the 19th century.

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Fons Vitae Ibn ‘Ajiba Series Translators:

Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk

Fouad Aresmouk grew up in a traditional Marrakesh family, the son of an Arabic teacher in the public school system and grandson of one of the most renowned Qur’ān teachers in Marrakesh and muqaddam for the Tijānī Sufi order. Fouad completed his degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic at Qadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, while at the same time plunging into a personal study of Sufism in Morocco that continues to this day. He is the author of al-Rashād fī zabdati al-awrād, a commentary (sharḥ) on the litany of the Ḥabibiyya sufi order of Morocco, and co-translator of four other of the books of the Fons Vitae Ghazali series into English, as well a number of other works from the Moroccan Sufic tradition. In addition to scholarly pursuits, Fouad is a husband and father of two and a co-founder and the human resource manager of the Center for Language and Culture in Marrakesh.

Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald

Originally from California, Abdurrahman Fitzgerald and his wife migrated to Morocco in the late 1970s. Since that time, he has been involved in education and the study of Arabic, Islam, and Sufism for the past thirty years. He co-translated Ibn al‑Qayyim on the Invocation of God (Islamic Text Society, 2000), worked on the editing and annotation of Denys Johnson-Davies’s translation of al-Ghāzali’s Kitāb ādab al‑akl (Islamic Texts Society, 2000), and also on Dr. Kenneth Honerkamp’s edition of al‑Rasāʾil al‑kubrā by Ibn ʿAbbād (Dār al-Machreq, 2005). Other works translated with Fouad Aresmouk include The Immense Ocean, a portion of Ibn ʿAjība’s Qurʾānic commentary; The Book of Ascension, Ibn ʿAjība’s spiritual glossary; and a portion of the work, Two Sufi Commentaries, all published by Fons Vitae. Abdurrahman holds degrees from the University of California and Shenandoah University, Virginia, and is the director of the Center for Language and Culture, Marrakesh.

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