The Jinn Knew What the Scholars Didn't: Al-Shaʿrānī's Most Dangerous Book

The thirty questions the jinn sent to al-Shaʿrānī in the night are, at their root, one question: what stands between the created being and its source, and how is that distance traversed? His answers — on the veil, the intellect, the purified heart, the vision of God — constitute one of the most sustained and direct engagements with this question in the entire Sufi literary tradition.