The Fusion of Shiʿism and Sufism in the Thought of Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī

Abstract This article investigates the influence of Andalusī Sufism in the writings of Persian Sufi scholar Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī. It explores Āmulī’s major enterprise to unify Shiʿism and Sufism, which drew upon the conceptual frameworks articulated in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s teachings on the Perfect Human. Āmulī’s Shiʿi-Sufi synthesis is rooted in the concept of wilāya , the unifying element in the Shiʿi doctrine of the Imamate and Ibn al-ʿArabī’s theory of the Perfect Human. Finally, the article translates and analyses the key section on wilāya in Āmulī’s seminal work, Jāmiʿ al-asrār wa manbaʿ al-anwār (The Compendium of Mysteries and Source of Lights).