AL-NABULSI: A MYSTICAL TRAVELER IN OTTOMAN JERUSALEM
NOTE: The following article is taken from the Introduction written by Giuditta Andrei for the translated work Journey to Jerusalem by Abdul Ghani al-Nabulsi. All Rights Reserved. At the Entrance to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem by Gustav Bauernfeind (1848–1904) Abd al-Ghani ibn Ismail ibn Abd al-Ghani ibn Ismail ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulsi al-Dimashqi al-Omari al-Hanafi al-Naqshbandi al-Qadri - more commonly known as Al-Nabulsi - was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1641. He was the son of Ismail ibn Abd al-Ghani, a teacher at Damascus’s most prominent mosque, the Umayyad Mosque, who also served as a judge ( qadi ) in Sidon. Renowned as the preeminent scholar of his time, his father was an expert in Islamic jurisprudence ( fiqh ), possessed a deep knowledge of the literature in this field, collected numerous texts for the sake of scholarship, and - notably - traveled to various cities across the Ottoman Empire for the purpose of trade. His mother, Zainab bint Sheikh Muhamm...