Abdurrahman b. Yusuf Al-Lijai And His Two Works_{Titled Shamail Al-Khusus And Mahajjah Al-Saada (Critical Edition)}

Abdurrahman b. Yūsuf al-Lijāī is one of the people who wrote works in the Islamic Sufism field. Lijāī who lived in Maghreb during the reign of The Almohad State is a thinker and Sūfī who remained in the shade, despite his remarkable works.
The author of the work, which we are subject to our book, Abdurrahman b. Yūsuf al-Lijāī lived in Maghreb in the brightest period of the Almohad State between the last quarter of the 12th century and the first quarter of the 13th century. The world of science has not been aware of Lijāī and his works until recently. Dībājī was the first researcher to introduce Lijāī to today’s world. Dībājī published the works of Lijāī’s Qutb al-‘ārifīn and Shams al-qulūb by critical edition (tahqīq). At the entrance of these publications, he informed some information about Lijāī’s life. Based on these two works and other manuscripts of Lijāī, we offered his understanding of sufism to the world of science in our book “Mağripli Sufi”.
The fact that Lijāī lived in a period considered as the beginning of the sect period at the end of the sūfī period made him an important personality in shaping the sūfī thought. Each study to be conducted on the examination of their ideas as of the period they live has a character that will shed light on the sufistic thoughts and practices that developed especially in Maghreb and generally in North Africa.