4to. 262 pp., publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, index, title printed in red, Unopened copy in mint condition, from series: Les Grandes Figures de l’Orient Tome VII, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1940.

Synopsis

Abu ‘abd Allah Al-ḥarith Ibn Asad Al-’Anazi Al-Muhasibi (Arabic meaning: He who examines his conscience was born c. 781, Basra, Iraq and died 857, Baghdad, an eminent Muslim mystic (Sufi) and theologian renowned for his psychological refinement of pietistic devotion and his role as a precursor of the doctrine of later Muslim orthodoxy. His main work was ar-Riʿāyah li-ḥūqūq Allah, in which he acknowledges asceticism to be valuable as an act of supererogation but always to be tempered by inner and outer duties toward God. [Britannica].