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Abstract
Tanbīh, the commentary of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād al-Rundī (d. 1390) on the Sufi maxims of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī (d. 1306), is the oldest distinctively Shādhilī compendium composed in Morocco. The basis of the commentary, al-Ḥikam al-ʿAṭāʾīya, later became one of the essential pillars of the Shādhilī didactic literature. Ibn ʿAbbād’s commentary made a major contribution to the significance of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’s maxims within the Shādhilī tradition and beyond. Tanbīh was well-circulated in the scholarly sphere of Morocco and has been studied along with Sufi classics. The creation of this commentary was a part of the stream of text-based Sufism that had become popular in the 14th century among the Muslims of the Maghreb and Iberia. Text-based Sufism, as a discipline, was actualized and theorized through the personal Sufi development of the author of Tanbīh. The text of Tanbīh has been printed several times, but despite its significance, none of its previous editions display the features and standards of a critical and scholarly reconstruction. The current research presents a critical edition of the text based on four early Maghrebi manuscripts. It also provides materials and references for the source analysis of the text.