Sufis and Their Lodges in the Ottoman Ḥijāz

The seventeenth-century Ottoman Ḥijāz was a major center of Sufi life, hosting more than 150 Sufi shaykhs and forty Sufi orders. The Ottoman-era sources edited in this volume illustrate the richness of both individual and collective Sufi life and activities.

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The distinguished position of the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz attracted Sufis from across the Islamic world, making it the largest Sufi center of that era, with more than forty Sufi orders active during the Ottoman period. Most of the region’s many scholars were associated with Sufism and affiliated to these orders; their lives and Sufi activities more broadly were documented by one of their number, al-ʿUjaymī, in two texts. These texts, critically edited here for the first time, constitute some of the best evidence for the character of spiritual life in the Ḥijāz during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.