This is the translation of Imam Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī’s magisterial work ‘Tayid al-Haqiqa al-Aliya wa Tashyid  al-Tariqa Shadhiliya’ – on one of the major Sufi Orders – the Shadhili Tariqa. The Shadhili Tariqa is named after one of the most outstanding of the Awliya Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, who would be visited by scholars, such as Sulṭān al-ʿUlamāʾ Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd.

 

Imam al-Suyuti who was a Shadhili sufi himself writes writes in erudition about tasawuff and its place as an essential traditional Islamic science.