The Life, Personality and Writings of Al-Junayd - Paperbackby Ali Hassan Kader (Author) This volume contains an edition and translation of the extant epistles of Ab l Qsim b. Muammad al Junayd. Al Junayd was an influential holy man and spiritual thinker who lived in Baghdad in the ninth century. His writings are marked with many of the features of the tradition that later became known as Taawwuf, Islamic Mysticism. Later Sufis acknowledged him as shaykh al mashyikh, the Sheikh among Sheikhs, and as tws al