Al-Anwār al-Qudsīyya fī Bayān Ādāb al-ʿUbūdiyya is an edition of the Arabic text of an early work of the sixteenth century Egyptian Sufi ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī (d. 973 H/1565 CE). The text can be considered as an introduction to many of the central themes of his large corpus on subjects like legal theory, the relationship between law and Sufism, the master-shaykh relationship, and ethics. It shows us the development of al-Shaʿrānī's ideas in his early career, before building on them in later works.

The editor has discovered another manuscript that provides a more correct reading of the text, resolving a number of problems in the previously published versions. Using this new manuscript as the base text along with other existing witnesses, this critical edition provides the first comprehensive and complete version of this important text.

Mohamed Saad Shehata, Ph.D. (2012), Ain Shams University, is an Associate Professor at Gaziantep University, Turkey. He has published several volumes of poetry in Arabic as well as scholarly books on Arabic syntax, rhetorics and the language of Quran.

This edition will be of interest to all interested in the history of the ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī, Islamic Sufism, and pre-modern Arabic literature.