الملامح الصوفية في كتاب تعريف الخلف برجال السلف للحفناوي

Abstract

Abu Al Qasim al-Hafnawi is one of the most prominent figures who played a major role in preserving the Arab-Islamic identity during the colonial period, where he had extensive contact with scientific life in his time, and a passion for the demand and collection of science, he left us a book Taʻrīf al-Khalaf bi-rijāl al-Salaf, which gained him great fame, as he collected a number of wide translation of scholars and literati in ottman aria and the beginning of the colonial era, We’re using large resource of Sources vary from manuscripts, correspondence and documents. Among the distinguishing features of this book is the emergence of the Sufi character that dominates many of its pages; Which reflects the composition of his scientific work, which was at the hands of the sheikhs of the angles who were representing the Sufi orders at the time, and this feature that Al-Hifnawi was known and reflected in his book Ta’rif Al-Khalaf, indicates a clear indication of what was prevalent at that stage of the wide spread of Sufi methods across the country The Algerian. For this reason, this research paper came to highlight the features of this phenomenon that was prevalent in the colonial period in Algeria, perhaps adding to the studies that were written more clarification of many aspects related to the importance of the book and its author.