Miroku Nemeth’s Reviews > Reassurance for the Seeker: A Biography and Translation of Salih al-Ja'fari's al-Fawaid al-Ja'fariyya, a Commentary on Forty Prophetic Traditions > Status Update

By this point, Reassurance has established a powerful intellectual and spiritual lineage connecting Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī to earlier reformers such as Imam Ibn Idrīs and the Sanūsī family, whose influence extended across North Africa and into the anti-colonial movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries.It also describes the life of the great saints in the lineage, Al-Azhar, his sonand the Shaikh beautifully.