About this text: The Book of Stations

Name: The Book of Stations
Author: al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī

المواقف

al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (1222–1300/1808–1883)

The Emir's Book of Halts, a reading path of 15 of its 372 mawāqif, "The Emir's halts: law and light": the Law and the light of the Book, the two seas and the knower between them, mercy, the one God of every creed, war and the soul, prayer, and one dream (an excerpt). The vowelling and the English are AI work, not yet reviewed by a person.

✦ Vowels, roots and English: AI; not reviewed by a person. For three of the fifteen (7, 30 and 246) the English was compared with the one English translation held, and where they differ a “Translators differ” note says so; for the other twelve no translation is held, so the English has not been checked against any specialist translation.

The book’s own title, given by the Emir, is Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā l-asrār wa-l-maʿārif (كتاب المواقف في بعض إشارات القرآن إلى الأسرار والمعارف), as Taleb (2023) has it from the critical edition; the Damascus 1966 edition we read prints the older title Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī l-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād. Usually called the Kitāb al-Mawāqif (“Book of Halts”), it is a book of 372 short stations, each usually opening on a Qurʾān verse or a ḥadīth and giving what the Emir says was disclosed to him about it. It is Akbarian in doctrine and, in Weismann’s description, “highly associative” in style and modelled on the Futūḥāt. This text is a reading path of 15 of the 372, in an order chosen by the editor (“The Emir’s halts: law and light”): Mawqif 20, 75, 6 and 7, 30, 29, 31, 219, 218, 246, 73, 204, 76, 179, 203, and an excerpt of 346 (the lion dream). Each mawqif is its own section with links to its pages in the print. The others are not in the reader yet.

Editions: the first printing is given as Cairo, Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, 1328–29/1910–11, three volumes (Weismann; probable, not confirmed independently). We read the Damascus edition of Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya (1966), which Lagarde used as the base of his complete French translation (Brill, 2000–02), and collated a Cairo reprint of c. 1925–26. In English only a selection of 39 texts exists (The Spiritual Writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader, SUNY 1995).

Authorship: scholars accept the Emir as author, but describe the book as partly dictated or compiled, with his Damascus disciples al-Khānī, al-Ṭanṭāwī and al-Bayṭār recording and prompting; an Arabic reply by ʿAbd al-Bāqī Miftāḥ shows that the attribution was once contested (the reply itself not yet seen: UNVERIFIED). Further reading, open access: L. R. Taleb, PhD thesis, Toronto 2023 (CC BY 4.0); I. Weismann, JMIAS 30 (2001) (PDF).

In the reader

376 passages · ~55 min · 64 Quran quotations

5,032 words

Published translation: none (the English is AI, marked as such)
Quran quotations: 64

Not yet: audio, commentaries.

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Difficulty

some rare vocabulary

Lexical difficulty, from the words themselves: how many roots fall outside the 1,000 most frequent in the Quran, how long the words are, and how much of the vowelling had to be supplied by AI. It says how unfamiliar the vocabulary is, not how deep the ideas are.

Rare roots 10% · mean word length 4.4 letters · AI vowelling on 94% of words

Versions

8 layers, each with its licence

The original

Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī l-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād (the edition's title), Damascus: Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya, 1966 (D)al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī, Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya li-l-Taʾlīf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr, Damascus, UNVERIFIED · 1966UNVERIFIED

By: al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya li-l-Taʾlīf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr, Damascus (publisher); UNVERIFIED (editor or prefacer (not established)) · 1966
Source:: Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī l-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād (the edition's title), Damascus: Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya, 1966, one volume; the fifteen units of the reading path at printed pp. 38, 61–62, 74–77, 144–150, 397–399, 440–444, 483–487, 560–562 and 1113–1115 (Mawqif 75 at pp. 147–148 = PDF pp. 144–145; each unit's pages are linked at its heading). Digitised on archive.org, item 1966_20230113_202301 (image-only scan; page n = PDF page − 1). Lagarde used this edition, with the Algiers library manuscript, as the base of his French translation. The scan's PDF pp. 438 and 439 are bound in the wrong order. · link ↗
In the reader:: Fifteen units of the 372 (Mawqif 20, 75, 6–7, 30, 29, 31, 219, 218, 246, 73, 204, 76, 179, 203 and an excerpt of 346) as our reading of the print; the page images are linked to archive.org, not rehosted
Licence:: Text public domain (author d. 1883); the edition's own apparatus (footnoted Qurʾān references, contents) is not copied. No licence is stated on the archive.org item: UNVERIFIED
Notes: The reader's base: the fuller printing (Qurʾān lines vowelled and footnoted, clear paragraphing). Read from page images by AI (150, 300 and 450 dpi), not from the scan's OCR. The editor's footnote verse numbers are not reproduced; three of them are off by one (docs/texts/mawaqif-75.md §5). The edition's title page gives the older title «كتاب المواقف في الوعظ والإرشاد» (as Weismann and the Cairo reprint give it); this site gives the Emir's own title, with the print's as the edition's.
UNVERIFIED:: who edited or prefaced the 1966 edition the archive.org item's licence

Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī l-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād (the edition's title), Cairo: Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb [?], c. 1925–26 reprint, vols 1 and 3 (C)al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī, Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, Cairo (press UNVERIFIED: title page not checked) · c. 1925–26 (a reprint of the first edition, Cairo 1328–29/1910–11)Public domain

By: al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, Cairo (press UNVERIFIED: title page not checked) (printer) · c. 1925–26 (a reprint of the first edition, Cairo 1328–29/1910–11)
Source:: Kitāb al-Mawāqif, Cairo, vol. 1; Mawqif 75 complete on printed p. 133 (PDF p. 152). archive.org item 1_20230115 (whose own 1911 date is wrong: the colophon names patrons of the 1920s). The first edition's date rests on Weismann, JMIAS 30 (2001), n. 9 (probable, not independently confirmed). The units of the path are in vol. 1 (archive.org 1_20230115) except the lion dream (346), which is in vol. 3 (archive.org 3_20230115, PDF pp. 75–76; the item id is inferred from vol. 1's pattern and exists, its content not re-checked). · link ↗
In the reader:: Not shown; used as a second witness (a control), unit by unit
Licence:: Text public domain (author d. 1883); the scan is marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 on archive.org
Notes: Collated unit by unit with D by script and, where the consonants differ, by an Opus adjudication of both page images; Mawqif 75 was collated by hand (no consonantal variant, fourteen smaller differences, docs/texts/mawaqif-75.md §3). The other records (docs/texts/mawaqif-*.md, listed in mawaqif-path.md) hold each unit's differing readings and what was adopted. It carries almost no vowel marks.
UNVERIFIED:: the press and exact year of this printing whether the first edition differs

Our edition

Our reading and collation of D with CClaude (AI), Opus · 2026-10-21Our work

By: Claude (AI), Opus (reading and collation) · 2026-10-21
In the reader:: The Arabic of the reader is this reading of D
Licence:: Ours; AI work, unreviewed
Notes: Mawqif 75 was read and aligned by hand; the other fourteen units were read from page images by AI, collated against C by script (differing spans on the letters, then an Opus adjudication of both images for each consonantal difference; D stands unless D has a clear error and the model is sure). Each record lists the spans and decisions. Qurʾān quotations of Mawqif 75 were checked against Tanzil by hand; the others only by the automatic matcher. No person has checked any of the reading.
UNVERIFIED:: the whole reading awaits a person's check

Published translations

The Spiritual Writings of Amir ʿAbd el-Kader (a selection of 39 texts, including mawqif 7, 30 and 246)Michel Chodkiewicz (ed.) · 1995Copyrighted: cited only

By: Michel Chodkiewicz (ed.) (editor) · 1995
Source:: M. Chodkiewicz (ed.), The Spiritual Writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995); mawqif 7 at p. 29, mawqif 30 at pp. 77–78, mawqif 246 at pp. 129–132
In the reader:: Consulted (a lending copy, not downloaded) and compared with our English for mawqif 7, 30 and 246 only; the serious differences appear as “Translators differ” notes (a few words quoted, cited), never reproduced
Licence:: In copyright: cited only
Notes: The only English translation of any of the Emir's mawāqif; it covers 3 of our 15 units. Not rehosted and not quoted at length; our English is in our own words.

AI layers

Vowelling (full)Claude (AI) · 2026-10-21AIOur work

By: Claude (AI) (vowelling) · 2026-10-21
In the reader:: Every word fully vowelled. The 1,842 marks D prints are shown as D's; the 16,847 marks the AI added are shown in amber as AI
Licence:: Ours; marked AI
Made by:: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-20 (data/sources/mawaqif/mawqif-NNN.ai.json (scripts/mawaqif/vowel_translate.py, Opus); scripts/mawaqif/assemble_path.py)
Notes: Case endings and moods included, no pausal forms; Qurʾān quotations as Tanzil (Ḥafṣ) except Q 54:49, where D's «كُلَّ» is kept although the author refers to the reading with the nominative. Letters verified identical to the base by script. Flags kept for review: the ḥadīth line (D's «بلاءِ» against the standard «بَلَاءً»; «اشدُ»). Not reviewed by a person. The same convention for all fifteen units; each unit's flags (printed marks kept against the grammar, doubtful readings) are in its record.

English translation, sentence by sentence, with notesClaude (AI) · 2026-10-21AIOur work

By: Claude (AI) (translation) · 2026-10-21
In the reader:: Each sentence: an English reading; the model's notes on terms open from the word
Licence:: Ours; marked AI
Made by:: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-20 (data/sources/mawaqif/mawqif-NNN.ai.json; scripts/mawaqif/assemble_path.py --ai)
Notes: In our own words, made from the Arabic. For mawqif 7, 30 and 246 it was then compared with the one English translation held (Chodkiewicz, SUNY 1995) and the serious differences are shown as “Translators differ” notes; for the other twelve units no translation is held, so it is NOT checked against any specialist translation (no English one exists, and Lagarde's French is not held). Three stations carry a short neutral context note beside them (73, 219, 246); the translations are unaltered. Not reviewed by a person.

Automatic analysis

Word analysis (CAMeL Tools)CAMeL Tools 1.6 (calima-msa-r13 + MLE) · 2026-10-21Our work

By: CAMeL Tools 1.6 (calima-msa-r13 + MLE) (automatic analysis) · 2026-10-21
In the reader:: The word panel: root, lemma, features, segments
Licence:: Ours (automatic analysis)
Notes: For each word the CAMeL candidate whose vowelling agrees best with ours was chosen (scripts/fusus/analyze_ch.py). No AI sweep of lemmas and roots has been run; roots with a weak radical that CAMeL leaves open are unresolved. 196 words show a vowel conflict with the analysis (many are printed marks kept against the grammar).

Qurʾān quotationsscripts/quran_refs.py · 2026-10-21Our work

By: scripts/quran_refs.py (automatic matching, with hand corrections and additions from the 22 Oct 2026 review (scripts/quran_refs_overrides.json)) · 2026-10-21
In the reader:: Quotations (64 found across the path) are marked and linked to their verses
Licence:: Ours (automatic)
Notes: Found by scripts/quran_refs.py on the consonantal skeleton. The nine quotations of Mawqif 75 are also listed in the edition's own record and verified by hand: Q 55:19–20, 9:105, 2:264, 4:89 (the phrase is also in 4:91), 8:17, 3:128, 48:10, 19:93, 54:49. Verse numbers follow the standard Kufan numbering, not the 1966 footnotes.

✦ marks AI that no person has reviewed yet; ✧ marks AI reviewed by a named person. Copyrighted works are cited, never shown. All sources · How texts are established

Scholars

9 findings from 8 works

What modern and older scholars have found in this text, in our words, with the page. Each summary was written by AI AI from the cited page, then checked against it; quotations are the scholars' own and short. Parallels claim a likeness only, never an influence. In the reader, switch on Scholars (under Layers, or in the toolbar) to see them beside each passage.

Context and history (8)

Taleb describes the Mawāqif as an esoteric commentary of the allusive kind (tafsīr bi-l-ishāra) on the Qurʾān: about two thirds comments on chosen verses or sūras and on ḥadīth, and about one third on the works of Ibn ʿArabī and other Sufis.
“Two third of the Mawāqif consists of a scriptural commentary”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, p. 15AI summary by AI
Taleb says the book's own title, given by the Emir, is Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā l-asrār wa-l-maʿārif, and that scholars who have not consulted the critical edition kept the outdated title of the Damascus 1966 edition (Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī al-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād).
“outdated title”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, p. 15 n. 28AI summary by AI
Taleb holds that the first critical edition is Bakrī ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn's (Damascus, Nīnawā, 2014, 3 vols), based on 20 manuscripts, filling lacunae of earlier editions and giving a chronology of the chapters between 1848 and 1883. He also says the edition of ʿAbd al-Bāqī Miftāḥ (Algiers, Dār al-Hudā) is overlooked by scholars.
“20 existing manuscripts”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, p. 15 n. 30; p. 7 n. 13AI summary by AI
Taleb says many parts of the Mawāqif were taken down by leading Sufi scholars of the Emir's Damascus circle, and names its core: Muḥammad al-Khānī (d. 1862), ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Bayṭār (d. 1916), Muḥammad al-Ṭanṭāwī (d. 1882), Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib (d. 1896) and Muḥammad al-Mubārak (d. 1912).
“transcribed by key Sufi scholars”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, pp. 15–16AI summary by AI
Against Woerner-Powell's description of the book as a pile of unordered lecture notes, Taleb grants that some chapters were taken down orally but says many were written by the Emir himself as complete chapters over a long period, and that the book has a doctrinal unity beneath its loose form. On the attribution question, then, Taleb accepts the Emir as author while allowing for dictation.
“some chapters were transcribed orally”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, pp. 22–23AI summary by AI
Taleb notes that the Tuḥfat al-zāʾir, is the only biography that includes his intellectual and spiritual life and that it names the Mawāqif as his work. This is the early attestation of the attribution.
“explicitly attributes the Kitāb al-Mawāqif”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, p. 6AI summary by AI
Weismann treats the Emir as the author of the Mawāqif and sees in it the record of his last three decades of spiritual experience. He sees the stations as felt by the Emir as direct inspiration, written in an associative language modelled on Ibn ʿArabī's Futūḥāt, and as including explanations of hard points in Ibn ʿArabī prompted by disciples' questions.
“highly associative language”
Itzchak Weismann, p. 59AI summary by AI
Weismann's note gives the book as three volumes, Cairo, 1328–29/1910–11, under the title Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī al-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād. This is the only dating of the first printing we have read in a scholarly source.
“Cairo, 1328–29/1910–11”
Itzchak Weismann, p. 59 n. 9AI summary by AI

Contrasts (1)

Taleb faults Woerner-Powell (2017) for not consulting the Bakrī critical edition, which he says would have filled gaps in his knowledge of the book's structure and doctrinal sources; he disputes Woerner-Powell's rendering of one passage and his view of the book as unsystematic.
“did not consult this edition”
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, p. 23AI summary by AI

Works cited (8)

Lahouari Ramzi Taleb, “Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (d. 1883): Mystical Hermeneutics, Theology and Metaphysics in His Kitāb al-Mawāqif”, PhD thesis, University of Toronto, June 2023, 237 pp.; printed page numbers cited · CC BY 4.0 · access: open · Page opened (HTTP 200) and the PDF read in full text; the only book-length study of the Mawāqif found. Open: free PDF.
Itzchak Weismann, “God and the Perfect Man in the Experience of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī”, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society 30 (2001), pp. 55–72 · ©; free PDF, no licence stated · access: open · PDF read (18 pages, pp. 55–72); the Society's article page is https://ibnarabisociety.org/abd-al-qadir-al-jazairi-god-and-the-perfect-man-itzchak-weismann/. Linked, not rehosted.
Itzchak Weismann, Taste of Modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus, Leiden: Brill, 2001 (Islamic History and Civilization 34) · © · access: library or purchase · Existence and publisher confirmed from Crossref (DOI 10.1163/9789047400615); series number and how much it says on the Mawāqif not checked. Not read.
Tom Woerner-Powell, Another Road to Damascus: An Integrative Approach to ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (1808–1883), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017; ch. 5, “Sīrah Ṣūfiyyah: Sufism, Suspicion, and the Kitāb al-Mawāqif; 1864–1883”, pp. 155–197 · © · access: library or purchase (not open access) · Book and chapter (DOI 10.1515/9783110499513-007, pp. 155–197) confirmed from Crossref; the Manchester repository page (HTTP 200) lists the 2017 De Gruyter book with no open file. The chapter was not read. Taleb criticises it (see claims).
Ahmed Bouyerdene, Éric Geoffroy and Setty G. Simon-Khedis (eds), Abd el-Kader, un spirituel dans la modernité, Beirut/Damascus: Presses de l'Ifpo, 2012 (Études arabes, médiévales et modernes 237) · ©; free online reading (OpenEdition freemium) · access: open (read online); PDF/ePub for subscribing libraries · Page answered HTTP 200 and OpenAlex lists the book (2012, DOI 10.4000/books.ifpo.1772, open status green); the page is a script-driven shell, so the table of contents, editors and series number come from the survey's reading and are not re-confirmed here. A review says Denis Gril's chapter treats theophany in the Mawāqif: UNVERIFIED. Taleb cites an earlier, differently edited volume (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005, ed. Geoffroy).
Bruno Étienne, Abdelkader: isthme des isthmes (Barzakh al-barazikh), Paris: Hachette, 1994 (reissued in Pluriel, 2003) · © · access: library or purchase (second-hand) · Title, author, publisher and date confirmed from the CiNii catalogue record and Open Library (Hachette, 1994, about 500 pp.). Not read; its treatment of the Mawāqif is UNVERIFIED.
Michel Chodkiewicz, introduction to Abd el-Kader, Écrits spirituels, Paris: Seuil, 1982 · © · access: library or purchase (out of print, second-hand) · Existence confirmed from a review sheet and a bookseller page; the introduction was not seen. Taleb (p. 16) calls it seminal, and Wikipedia cites it for the composite composition of the book.
Ḥadbī Aḥlām, Qirāʾa falsafiyya fī kitāb Mawāqif lil-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir, master's memoir, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis, Mostaganem, 2023–24 (supervisor Sebbāʿī Lakhḍar) · open repository, no licence stated · access: open · A student memoir: secondary, useful only as a pointer to sources (it relays al-Khānī's account of how the book was composed). Not used for any claim here.

Updated 2026-10-20. Works in copyright are summarised only; their full text is not published.

Companions

Recitations, commentaries, lectures, editions and references around this text, by other people. They are linked out, not copied: the recordings belong to their reciters and platforms, and none of them is this reader's own (AI) audio. Links checked 2026-10-20.

Commentaries & lectures · 8

L'Emir ʿAbd al-Qâdir et Le livre des haltes, Kitâb al-Mawâqif, par Tayeb Chouiref · YouTube (Hanif Editions) ↗
Tayeb Chouiref (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · not assessed: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 20 min. Titled as a talk on the book itself; the channel is the publisher's own. Content not watched, so the survey's guess that it is the best short introduction is not confirmed. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
Le livre des haltes, horizons spirituels de l'Emir Abdelkader, par Mgr Henri Tessier [sic] · YouTube (WebTV de l'université de Béjaïa) ↗
Mgr Henri Teissier (title spelt Tessier) (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · not assessed: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 32 min. Institutional channel; the title spells the name "Tessier" (the archbishop of Algiers is Teissier: not confirmed). Not watched. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
01 al-Kamālāt al-Muḥammadiyya min kitāb al-Mawāqif al-ʿirfāniyya · YouTube (al-Zāwiya al-Balqāʾidiyya) ↗
speaker not identified (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · not assessed: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 41 min; first of a series by a Sufi zāwiya. Speaker not named in the metadata; not watched. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
Lughz al-tajallī al-ilāhī 1, bi-sharḥ al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir · YouTube (Shaṭranj al-ʿĀrifīn (the survey names it Nafaḥāt al-Awliyāʾ)) ↗
speaker not identified (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · not assessed: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 17 min, part 1; part 2 is https://youtu.be/ZfVCF43IS2s (27 min). Channel name taken from oEmbed. Not watched. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir wa-waḥdat al-wujūd · YouTube (Badr Alharthi) ↗
Badr al-Ḥārithī (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · not assessed: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 5 min on the Emir and waḥdat al-wujūd. Not watched. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
#Qiṣṣat_kitāb: kitāb al-Mawāqif · YouTube (al-Azhar al-Sharīf) ↗
al-Azhar al-Sharīf (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · institutional, brief: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 2 min promotional note on the book by an institutional channel. Not watched. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
"On the Supreme Identity" by Emir Abd el-Kader · YouTube (Let's Talk Religion) ↗
reader on the channel Let's Talk Religion (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · low: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 5 min reading of a passage said to be from the Mawāqif. Which translation is read is UNVERIFIED (probably SUNY 1995, in copyright): treat as a third-party reading of a copyrighted translation; link only, never embed. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.
Emir AbdelKader al-Jazairi (NBF 412) · YouTube (Safina Society) ↗
Shadee Elmasry (speaker) · the book generally, not Mawqif 75
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · not assessed: YouTube oEmbed returned this title and channel on 20 Oct 2026; the video was not watched, so content quality is unverified. · 1 h 37 min general lecture on the Emir, not on the Mawāqif specifically. Not watched. Link out only: nothing embedded or rehosted.

Editions & translations · 13

Kitāb al-Mawāqif, Cairo: Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, 1328–29 AH / 1910–11, 3 vols (the first printing) · Internet Archive (Digital Library of India scan) ↗
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, Cairo (printer) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · specialist: Date and 3-volume form from Weismann, JMIAS 30 (2001), p. 59 n. 9 (read in the PDF); the scan's own metadata (HTTP 200) gives the title "Kitabul Mawafiq-1" and the date 1328. · Which volume this scan holds is UNVERIFIED (its title page and colophon have not been opened). The archive.org rights field says "Not Available"; the text is public domain by age but the uploader states no licence. Linked, not rehosted. The first-printing date is probable, not independently confirmed (no WorldCat or GAL record seen).
Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī al-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād, Cairo: Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, 1344 AH [c. 1925–26], 3 vols: vol. 1 (530 pp.) · NYU Digital Library (American University of Beirut copy) ↗
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); Maṭbaʿat al-Shabāb, Cairo (printer) · whole text
Rights: public domain / open · access: open · specialist: Record opened (HTTP 200): title "Kitāb al-mawāqif fī al-waʻẓ wa-al-irshād v.1"; NYU states public domain. The c. 1925–26 date rests on the colophon's "at present" for ʿAzīz ʿIzzat Pasha as ambassador in London (c. 1924–27, Wikipedia) and the AUB catalogue date. · Volume 2 (482 pp.): https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/viewer/node/67916 (HTTP 200). A later printing of the same press, not the first; the archive.org copy this reader collated (1_20230115) is very probably this printing.
Kitāb al-Mawāqif, Damascus: Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya li-l-Taʾlīf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr, 1966 (–67) · Internet Archive (community scan) ↗
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); Dār al-Yaqẓa al-ʿArabiyya, Damascus (publisher); UNVERIFIED (editor (not established)) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: open · specialist: Lagarde used it with the Algiers manuscript as the base of his translation (Brill catalogue, via the survey). Taleb, p. 15 n. 28, calls its title ("fī al-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād") outdated against the title the Emir gave the book. · This reader's base text. The scan is a community upload with no licence stated (see the Versions record); the edition's own apparatus is in copyright and is not copied. Link kept because this reader already links its page images; nothing is rehosted.
Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā l-asrār wa-l-maʿārif, ed. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Bakrī (Bakri ʿAlā al-Dīn), Damascus: Nīnawā, 2014, 3 vols (critical edition) · Cited in Taleb (2023), p. 7 n. 13 and p. 15 n. 30 ↗
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Bakrī (editor) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: Read in Taleb's thesis (PDF): he calls Bakrī the first to edit the book critically, from 20 manuscripts, with a chronology of the chapters (1848–83), and uses it as his base. Edition itself not seen. · Cited only; the link goes to Taleb's thesis, where it is described. Gives the Emir's own title for the book, and Taleb notes that Woerner-Powell did not consult it (p. 23). This edition may supersede the Damascus 1966 base for any future work: UNVERIFIED how it reads at Mawqif 75.
Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā l-asrār wa-l-maʿārif, ed. ʿAbd al-Bāqī Miftāḥ, Algiers: Dār al-Hudā (2005, 2 vols, or 2007, 3 vols) · Cited in Taleb (2023), p. 15 n. 28 and p. 18 n. 44 ↗
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); ʿAbd al-Bāqī Miftāḥ (editor) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: Read in Taleb's thesis (PDF), which gives "2007, 3 vol." at p. 15 n. 28 and "2005, 2 vol." at p. 18 n. 44. Edition itself not seen. · Cited only. The year and volume count are inconsistent within Taleb: UNVERIFIED which is right. This corrects the survey, which took Miftāḥ only as author of a reply on the attribution: Taleb names him as an editor of the Mawāqif.
al-Mawāqif al-rūḥiyya wa-l-fuyūḍāt al-subbūḥiyya, ed. ʿĀṣim Ibrāhīm al-Kayyālī al-Ḥusaynī, Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004 (1425 AH), 2 vols, ISBN 2-7451-3951-7 · Noor Library (catalogue listing) ↗
al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author); ʿĀṣim Ibrāhīm al-Kayyālī al-Ḥusaynī (editor); Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, Beirut (publisher) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: ISBN and editor from the archive.org metadata of an upload of this edition (survey); no library or publisher record could be fetched. The Noor page returned HTTP 403 to a script (blocked, not shown dead). · Cited only: in copyright (editor's apparatus). The archive.org and blog uploads of this edition are not linked. FLAGGED: link unverified (bot-blocked). Noor describes it as the first modern critical edition, a claim Taleb contradicts by naming Bakrī 2014.
Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Mawâqif), Tome I · Brill (Leiden/Boston) ↗
Michel Lagarde (translator); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: Brill DOI 10.1163/9789004453029 resolves (HTTP 200) and Crossref lists it as the monograph "Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Mawâqif), Tome I", 2000, with Lagarde as author; Brill ISBN 9789004115675. · The only complete translation, in French. Cited and paraphrased only, never copied; the volume ranges of halts are UNVERIFIED (the catalogue figures overlap). For private triangulation of our English once a copy is held (docs/ACQUISITIONS.md). Community scans on archive.org are in-copyright uploads and are not linked.
Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Mawâqif), Tome II · Brill (Leiden/Boston) ↗
Michel Lagarde (translator); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: Brill DOI 10.1163/9789004453227 resolves (HTTP 200) and Crossref lists it as the monograph "Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Mawâqif), Tome II", 2001, with Lagarde as author; Brill ISBN 9789004121447. · The only complete translation, in French. Cited and paraphrased only, never copied; the volume ranges of halts are UNVERIFIED (the catalogue figures overlap). For private triangulation of our English once a copy is held (docs/ACQUISITIONS.md). Community scans on archive.org are in-copyright uploads and are not linked.
Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Mawâqif), Tome III · Brill (Leiden/Boston) ↗
Michel Lagarde (translator); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: Brill DOI 10.1163/9789004453555 resolves (HTTP 200) and Crossref lists it as the monograph "Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Mawâqif), Tome III", 2002, with Lagarde as author; Brill ISBN 9789004127630. · The only complete translation, in French. Cited and paraphrased only, never copied; the volume ranges of halts are UNVERIFIED (the catalogue figures overlap). For private triangulation of our English once a copy is held (docs/ACQUISITIONS.md). Community scans on archive.org are in-copyright uploads and are not linked.
Le Livre des Haltes, tr. Max Giraud, Paris: Éditions Al-Bouraq, from 2011 (in progress) · Cited in D. Giordani (Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, open PDF) ↗
Max Giraud (translator); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: purchase · specialist: The PDF (HEAD 200; read in the survey) cites Giraud as work in progress, volumes 2011–2014. Bookseller pages (La Procure, HTTP 403 bot-blocked) not confirmed. · A second complete French version, volume order and ranges UNVERIFIED (a bookseller lists a vol. 4 covering halts 100–143, 2016). Cited only.
Écrits spirituels, presented and translated by Michel Chodkiewicz, Paris: Seuil, 1982 (extracts, with a long introduction) · UCLouvain (OLIF project review sheet, PDF) ↗
Michel Chodkiewicz (translator and author of the introduction); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: library · specialist: The review sheet (HTTP 200, read) gives Écrits spirituels, Le Seuil, 1982, 240 pages; a bookseller page (livre-rare-book.com, HTTP 200) gives 224 pages. Taleb (p. 16) calls it a seminal translation of short chapters prefaced with an elaborate introduction. · Out of print: library or second-hand. Which mawāqif are included is UNVERIFIED; Mawqif 75 may not be among them. The page count differs by source (224 or 240).
Il Libro delle Soste, ed. M. Chodkiewicz, Milan: Rusconi, 1984 (partial) · Cited in D. Giordani (open PDF) ↗
Michel Chodkiewicz (editor); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: library · specialist: Cited in the same Giordani paper (read in the survey); no catalogue record could be fetched (Open Library none; SBN OPAC not followed). · Probably the Italian rendering of the Seuil selection: UNVERIFIED. Cited only; availability second-hand.
The Spiritual Writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995 (39 texts from the Mawāqif) · Internet Archive (controlled digital lending) ↗
Michel Chodkiewicz (introduction and selection (as catalogued)); al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (author) · whole text
Rights: linked, not embedded · access: library · specialist: archive.org metadata (HTTP 200; search API): title, publisher SUNY Press, 1995, ix + 233 pp., ISBNs 0791424456 and 0791424464; lending status borrowable (available_to_browse, lendable). Open Library lists 233 pp. · The only English translation, a selection; credits of the translators (James Chrestensen, Tom Manning, from a catalogue snippet) are UNVERIFIED, and whether Mawqif 75 is among the 39 is UNVERIFIED. Borrowing requires a free archive.org account. Cited and paraphrased only; never copied. Used to check our English privately.

References · 1

Emir Abdelkader (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia ↗
Wikipedia contributors (authors) · life and works
Rights: public domain / open · access: open · general: Opened (HTTP 200). Its note on the book's composition cites Chodkiewicz 1982, which was not seen; a general encyclopedia, not a specialist source. · Orientation only. Encyclopaedia of Islam and Encyclopaedia Iranica entries were not reachable (Iranica HTTP 403, EI entry not located); none is linked.

The text record

Our working notes on this edition: status, witnesses, the decisions taken and why, and what AI supplied. This is a working edition, not an authority.Show the notes

Work / author	Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā l-asrār wa-l-maʿārif (the title the Emir gave the book, per Taleb 2023, p. 15 n. 28), 372 short "stations" · al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Jazāʾirī (1222–1300 AH / 1808–1883 CE). The Damascus 1966 edition prints the older title Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī l-waʿẓ wa-l-irshād; the Cairo reprint of c. 1925–26 has the same.
What is in the reader	15 units of the 372, in the editor's order (a reading order, not the book's): Mawqif 20, 75, 6 and 7 (one unit), 30, 29, 31, 219, 218, 246, 73, 204, 76, 179, 203, and an excerpt of 346 (the lion dream only).
Reader route	`/read/mawaqif` (apparatus `/read/mawaqif/about`) · public since 2026-10-22 (formerly hidden: `PRIVATE_LAYERS=1`) (`app/src/lib/hiddenTexts.ts`). Sections come from `data/sources/mawaqif-base.json`; the reader data from `scripts/mawaqif/assemble_path.py`.
Status	AI, unreviewed. Each unit: text read from page images by AI (Claude Opus), collated D against C, vowelled and translated by AI. No person has checked any of it · reviewed by: —

Records, one per unit

Step	Mawqif	Record	Notes
1	20	mawaqif-020
2	75	mawaqif-75	the pilot, hand-collated
3	6 and 7	mawaqif-006-007	one paragraph each, one printed page; 7 begins at the seventh sentence
4	30	mawaqif-030
5	29	mawaqif-029
6	31	mawaqif-031
7	219	mawaqif-219	context note: mercy is not universal salvation
8	218	mawaqif-218
9	246	mawaqif-246	context note: read whole
10	73	mawaqif-073	context note: limits war, does not renounce it
11	204	mawaqif-204	1966 PDF pp. 438/439 bound swapped
12	76	mawaqif-076
13	179	mawaqif-179
14	203	mawaqif-203	1966 PDF pp. 438/439 bound swapped
15	346 (excerpt)	mawaqif-346-lion	the lion dream only, D pp. 1113–1115

How it is shown

One text, one section per mawqif (heading "Mawqif N · short title", its own "See the print" links to the archive.org page images of D (item 1966_20230113_202301) and C (1_20230115, vol. 3 3_20230115: item id inferred from the vol. 1 pattern, exists on archive.org, vol. 3 content not re-checked here); page n = PDF page − 1).
Neutral context notes (shown, not part of the translation) for 73, 219 and 246 come from the "Sensitive framing" flags of their .ai.json; the translations are untouched.
"* * *" (D's section mark, at the end of 31) is not part of the text and is dropped.
Word analysis: CAMeL (as for 75); Qurʾān quotations found by scripts/quran_refs.py (the nine of Mawqif 75 verified by hand, record §5).

Change log

2026-10-21: the 14 further units added to the reader beside Mawqif 75; book title corrected to the Emir's own (Taleb), the 1966 title noted as the edition's.

2026-10-22: PUBLISHED: the reading path (15 units) is public at /read/mawaqif (removed from HIDDEN_TEXTS, HIDDEN_LIBRARY, HIDDEN_CATALOGUE and quran_refs HIDDEN_IDS). Only the path is loaded by the reader; the 357 full-text files and 179 AI drafts under data/sources/mawaqif/full/ are not. Qurʾān refs: 3 review corrections now persist in scripts/quran_refs_overrides.json, plus 13 explicit verbatim quotations added (5:32 in 204; 1:3, 1:4, 1:5 in 203; 2:45 in 179; 89:27, 89:30, 9:128 in 219; 2:187, 2:229 in 218). Chodkiewicz (SUNY 1995) is listed as a held translation (copyrighted-cited); its comparison for 7, 30 and 246 shows as “Translators differ” notes. Decisions of 2026-10-22 recorded in the unit records (75, 30, 246, 73, 219).