'Acts of Devotion : Recommended Acts for Every Month of the Year' is a summary of Irshad al-Khass wal 'Amm li Bayan Fadl Ba'd al-Ayyam wa al-Layali wa al-Shuhur wa al-A'wam [Guiding the Elect and Ordinary Folk Through Clarifying the Benefit of Some Days, Nights, Months and Years].


Sidi Idris al-Iraqi's Ikhtisar al-Irshad li-khass wa l-'am, translated here as "Acts of Devotion" has long been considered a useful summary of supererogatory worship according to notable annual dates on the Islamic lunar calendar. Al-'Iraqi was the Imam of the Zawiya Tijaniyya in Fez, Morocco, during the mid-twentieth century.


"Acts of Devotion" is noteworthy in its concise exposition of the relevant chapter on the sixteenth century Indian scholar Muhammad al-Ghawth's Al-Jawahir al-Khams ('The Book of Five Jewels'). Al-Iraqi supplements this material with various subsequent commentaries on the text, and includes the orally and textually transmitted variations of Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani as taught to his Companions.

Translation by Talut Dawood and preface by Dr Zachary Wright