HUJWĪRĪ, AL- (d. AH 469?/1076? CE), more fully ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Jullābī al-Ghaznawī al-Hujwīrī, was the author of Kashf al-maḥjūb (The unveiling of the secrets), a very early textbook of Sufism in the Persian language. Almost all the facts of al-Hujwīrī's life that can be trusted come from what he says about himself and his contemporaries in the Kashf al-maḥjūb. His name relates that he was a native of Ghaznīn; Jullāb and Hujwīr were apparently quarters of that town. From the descriptions of his contemporaries, it is clear that he was born around the beginning of the eleventh century. He studied Sufism with Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad Khuṭṭalī and read some other sciences with Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ashqān...