Texts and teachings
The works of the Pîr
The biographer Kasım Samarrâî lists fifteen works attributed to Sayyid Ahmad al-Rifāʿī, from Kâtip Çelebi's Kashf al-ẓunūn and the writings of Abu'l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī. Most, he writes, were lost when the Mongols took Baghdad.
Attribution. The scholarly literature separates works the Pîr wrote from discourses his followers collected, such as al-Burhān al-muʾayyad. A work listed under his name in a later book is not always one he wrote himself.
| Title | Kind | State |
|---|---|---|
| al-Burhān al-muʾayyad | Discourses | Printed several times; Turkish translation by H. Kâmil Yılmaz, 1985 |
| al-Ḥikam al-Rifāʿiyya | Sayings | Printed several times; Turkish translation by A. Akçiçek, 1970 |
| al-Aḥzāb al-Rifāʿiyya | Litanies | Lost |
| al-Niẓām al-khāṣṣ li-ahl al-ikhtiṣāṣ | Path | Printed several times; Ottoman Turkish edition 1326–28 |
| al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm fī tafsīr maʿānī bismillāh | Qur’an commentary | Lost |
| al-Riwāya | — | Lost |
| al-Ṭarīq ilā Allāh | Path | Lost |
| al-ʿAqāʾid al-Rifāʿiyya | Creed | Manuscript, unpublished |
| al-Majālis al-Aḥmadiyya | Discourses | Lost in Arabic; Ottoman Turkish version by Kadri Efendi, 1313 |
| Tafsīr Sūrat al-Qadr | Qur’an commentary | Lost |
| Ḥālat ahl al-ḥaqīqa maʿa Allāh | Discourses | Printed several times; Turkish translation by A. Akçiçek, 1972 |
| Forty ḥadīth | Ḥadīth | Explained in Ḥālat ahl al-ḥaqīqa |
| Sharḥ al-Tanbīh | Shāfiʿī law | A six-volume commentary on al-Shīrāzī |
| Raḥīq al-kawthar | — | Printed in Egypt |
| al-Bahja fi’l-fiqh | Law | Lost |