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Al-Sha'rani
'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ) was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and mystic, founder of an Egyptian order of Sufism, eponynously known as . The order gradually declined after Shaʿrani's death, although it remained active until the 19th century. Sharani's master was the prominent Shaykh Ali al-Khawas.
Besides voluminous mystic writings, he also composed an epitome of a treatise by as-Suwaydī (1204–1292; AH 604–690).
His seminal work Al-Mizan al-Kubra (The Supreme Scale) compares the rulings of all four Sunni schools of sharia as if they were a single school. He considered the differences, according to their difficulty, as either strictness ('azima) or dispensation (rukhsa).