Memoirs of a Sufi Master: Fawa’id min Kunnash

Memoirs of a Sufi Master: Fawa'id min Kunnash offers insight into the life of Abū al-'Abbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Zarrūq al-Burnusī al-Fāsī, the Sufi sheikh and scholar who founded the Zarruqi branch of the Shadhili Tariqa. For readers curious about the man behind that tradition, this is a chance to draw closer to his life and world.

This edition, translated and annotated by Abu Salif Ahmad Ali al-'Adani, comes with an introduction and a full scholarly commentary, much of it drawn from material previously available only in Arabic. That apparatus matters here: it situates the text for readers unfamiliar with the historical and spiritual world al-Zarruq inhabited, so the work reads as more than a curiosity from the past.

At 113 pages, it is a modest but focused volume, well suited to those with an interest in the spiritual and social history of Islam in North Africa, particularly Morocco in the 9th/15th century. Bound as a hardcover, it feels like a book meant to be kept and returned to rather than read once and set aside, a fitting companion for anyone tracing the roots of the Shadhili path.