num_pages: 261
description: The first biography in English of the 19th-century Moroccan mystic and teacher who spearheaded the Sufi revival in the Islamic world. Through his students and his writings, Ahmed Ibn Idris' influence is charted from Morocco to Malaysia, and from Yugoslavia south to Tanzania.
language: English
title: Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition
titlecomplete: Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition (Northwestern University Press Series in Islam and Society in Africa)
genres: Islam
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Northwestern University Press