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Um, so what I'm gonna do, inshallah, is, um, what I hope to do is to first kinda give some background and then to go through some text, textual, uh, um, uh, quotes from al-Tirmidhi and Al-Ghazali, Al-Imam Al-Ghazali.

Okay? So [clears throat] Bismillah.

So this, this paper is part of a larger project of mine to explore the anthropology of man in the intersection of Sufi and Ashʿarī thought.

Sufi anthropology is particularly important because it impinges on Sufi praxis and spiritual development.

I am interested in the longer arc of how these aspects integrate within a long tradition.

We see this Sufi anthropology develop and mature from Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi to Al-Ghazali to Ibn Arabi and up through the Shadhili Renaissance.