The Special Status of Muhammad: Shihab al-Din al-Qastallani's The Divine Bounties

This book examines the special status of the Prophet Muḥammad, as described by the Cairene Sufi mystic Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qasṭallānī (d. 1517). It examines spiritual, material, and theological aspects of love for the Prophet as expressed in his al-Mawāhib al-laduniyya bil-minaḥ al-muḥammadiyya (“The Divine Bounties [Granted] Through the Gifts of Muḥammad”).

Discussing an unknown layer in the religious literature written in the late Mamluk period, the author explores the vast intellectual legac...