Two Who Attained: Twentieth-Century Sufi Saints, Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi & Fatima al-Yashrutiyya Children's literature Myriam Francois

Myriam Francois

Paperback: 160 pages

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

Publisher: Xlibris

and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins

Two Who Attained: Twentieth-Century Sufi Saints, Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi & Fatima al-Yashrutiyya Children's literature Myriam FrancoisRare glimpses of two 20th century Sufi saints are offered in this work: the eminent Shaykh al Alawi and the lesser known woman saint Fatima al Yashrutiyya, both of whom continued on the Sufi path even as they watched their worlds crumble. Shaykh al Alawi's influence was pivotal to the spiritual development of Thomas Merton, who looked to al Alawi's writings and teachings in his own practice (see Fons Vitae's Merton and Sufism). Fatima al Yashrutiyya